Clarion 1970-02-13 Vol 45 No 16

Vol. XLV—No. 16
Friday, February 13, 1970
Love your founder as yourself
Founders invade campus next week
by Jack Priggen
By now almost everyone on campus has heard something of the
proposed recruiting of minority group students to Bethel. Last Wed-nesday,
February 4 the newly formed group, share, showed the film,
"Burden of Truth." Thursday, the fifth faculty passed a measure which
stated that they were in sympathy with the idea of minority group re-cruiting.
This came after some discussion both for and against the pro-posed
recruiting, but the recommendation was passed unanimously.
On Monday, February 9th 'Bo Conrad's Spit Band' presented a
tremendously successful 'concert' to raise money for the share scholar-ship
fund which is to provide financial aid for American racial minority
students. The group raised almost $190.
Thursday, February 26th the faculty hears a tape of an address
delivered to the United States Congress on Evangelism, September 9,
1969, by Tom Skinner. Tom Skinner is a black evangelist associated with
Billy Graham, one time leader of one of the largest gangs in Harlem,
New York, and author of the best seller "Black and Free." Mr. Skinner
lays down, in black and white, the responsibilities of evangelical institu-tions
to minority groups. This tape should prove valuable showing these
responsibilities to the faculty.
The first step has now been taken. This step could prove to be
small, fruitless, and in short, a farce. It could also prove to be one of the
greatest things to ever happen to Bethel.
There are several reasons why this program may not get out of the
planning stages. Money is one. Clearly the administration will have to
allot the recruitment office adequate funding to travel recruiting minor-ity
groups. Financial aid will definitely be required to help these stu-dents
meet the high cost of education at Bethel.
Another area of needed revision will be in both the administration
and faculty, namely setting up a program which would attract minority
group students to Bethel. If Bethel has nothing to offer the minority
student, he will not come.
Adjustments may have to be made at all levels by nearly everyone
to insure that the minority student once at Bethel will not be discrimin-ated
against. In general, preferred treatment of either black, white, or
indian in any way would be fatal to the program.
Today there are over 25,000,000 blacks in the U.S., but there are
less than 100 blacks at all evangelical colleges in the U.S. combined.
Is Bethel a segregated, "white ghetto" as the minority committee's
recommendation suggested? Do we have in our minds a God who is an
Anglo Saxon, middle class, protestant republican? If we want this first
step of interest to be a 'giant step' we (students and faculty) may have
to "make a lot of noise" for the Administration to hear us, and for the
Administration to include in its priorities and budget funds for re-cruiting
and financially helping minority students at Bethel.
Social action conference planned
Bethelites work for minority recruitment
Student activism stirs;
project 'share' initiated
On February 16-18, 1970, a un-ique
conference designed after a
county fair will be held at the
Pick-Nicollet Hotel in Minneapo-lis.
The conference will be known
as the Action Models Fair. Those
attending will be able to draw on
the resources of experts in the
field of social action from all over
the United States and Canada and
be able to implement in their own
communities, programs in hous-ing,
welfare, employment and
education.
On the three days of the Fair
over sixty models of what concern-ed
people are doing to bridge the
gaps in our society will be on dis-play.
This is one of the first at-tempts
to create and stockpile a
bank of human resources that will
tune in the Upper Midwest to
what is happening, not only with-in
this community, but across the
nation as well, to improve the
quality of contemporary society.
In November of 1968, Town
Meeting Incorporated, the Nation-al
Urban Coalition and the Amer-ican
Institute of Planners organ-ized
a conference on communica-tions
for the future. It featured
addresses by such noteables as
Whitney Young, Executive Dir-ector
of the Urban League, Ed-ward
P. Morgan of the Public
Broadcasting Laboratory, and oth-er
national figures. It also featured
"booths" in the hotel lobby where
conferees could see actual dem-onstrations
of innovative uses of
communications and have the op-portunity
to talk informally with
communications experts.
The "booth" approach was so
succesful that many conferees were
reluctant to return to the formal
sessions, no matter who the guest
speaker was.
Building on the experience of
the November, 1968 conference
on communications, George Nel-son
Associates, an educational con-sulting
firm in Minneapolis, in
conjunction with Luther Theolo-gical
Seminary in St. Paul and the
Urban Affairs Department of
Augsburg College decided to uti-lize
the "booth - county fair"
approach for a conference on soc-ial
action. The resulting concept
is the Action Models Fair.
The Fair will be open to the
public from 9 a.m. until 9 p.m.
There will be no formal sessions,
no lectures, no advance regis-tration.
The daily registration fee
is $1 for students and $2 for
others.
Twelve meeting and display
rooms will serve as the "booths"
of the Fair. In these rooms will
be experts in such diverse areas
of social action as: social comment-ary
film-making and the use of
the film medium; economic devel-opment
processes, rural and ur-ban;
uses of communications sys-tems
and networks for social
change; gearing business to the
needs of the community; non-pro-fit,
low-income housing projects;
emergency or "instant" community
service organizations; and total
community development processes.
A few of the organizations that
will have booths at the Fair as
resource models are: Christian Act-ion
Ministry Academy of Chicago,
a highly successful prep school
for high school dropouts from the
continued on page 4
"To the World with Love" is
the challenging theme of Bethel's
Founders Week, February 16-20.
A number of well-known and some
not so well-known speakers will
attempt to bring this theme to life.
Leading the four days of meet-ings
are Horace Fenton, the Dir-ector
of the Latin America Mission;
Harold Lindsell, Editor of Chris-tianity
Today; Donald McGavran,
Dean of the Fuller School of World
Missions and veteran of 32 years
of service in India; Jess Moddy,
author of the book with the pro-vocative
title A Drink At Joel's
Place; Oswald Smith, the founder
of the non-denominational Peoples
Church, Toronto; and Clyde Tay-lor,
Evangelical Missions Associ-tion
and a veteran worker in
Peru.
Activities of the week include
Freshman candidate, Penny
Watkins was crowned Sno-
Daze Queen Thursday evening
at the Camelot.
a banquet on Monday, a testimon-ial
session by students and faculty
on Tuesday and the preaching
competition on Wednesday. Thur-sday
there is a basketball game,
Bethel versus Concordia, and on
Friday the closing rally.
The highlight of the week will
be the dedication of the new fac-ilities
on the Arden Hills campus
which will take place on Wednes-day
at 2 o'clock. The speaker will
be Harvey Lindsell.
Other participants in the activ-ities
include Evelyn Christianson,
a pastor's wife from Rockford, Illi-nois
and active worker in wom-en's
work; Mildred Dienert, a
dynamic Bible teacher; and of
special interest to students, Rene
Padilla, head of the International
Fellowship of Evangelical Students
in South America.
The 1970 Sno-Daze Queen, Pen-ny
Watkins, was crowned at the
highlight of the Sno-Daze calen-dar
last night at the Camelot.
Penny, a petite freshman from
Brooklyn Center, Minnesota, was
chosen to reign over this year's
winter celebration in an all school
election that was held Wednesday.
She will be formally presented to-night
at the half time activities
in the game here against Briar
Cliff. Also included in the half
time activities tonight is the are
nual beard judging contest, de-signed
to award the Bethel male
with the best looking beard.
The weekend's events also in-clude
skating on the rink in the
center of the campus. The idea
In addition to these guest speak-ers,
twelve Conference mission-aries
will be present to act as re-source
persons in various work-shops
held throughout the week.
They include Vernon Anderson,
Brazil; Dale Bjork, Japan; Robert
Boyd, Argentina; Paul Edwards,
India; John Marrs, Brazil; George
Johnson, India; Bill Murray, Ethi-opia;
Franklin Nelson, Burma; Roy
Nelson, Phillippines; Glen Ogren.
Brazil; Glen Swanson, Japan; and
Herman Tegenfeldt, Burma. Their
presentations will be brief,giving
time for participation and inter-action.
Founders Week is expected to
draw more than 1000 visitors from
across the nation. They will join
with the Bethel Community in
seeking to investigate their theme,
"To the World with Love."
of a skating rink was brought back
to the ranks of tradition for Sno-
Daze last year by John Goodman
this year's Social Committee Chair-man.
Work on this year's rink started
during interim. The enthusiasm
of hockey players using the ice
about midnight Wednesday seems
to indicate that it is in good con-dition
for the weekends's festiv-ities,
which, incidentally, include
broomball for the non skaters.
The home game against Mankato
State Saturday evening will close
the Sno-Daze activities for another
year. In charge of the Sno-Daze
calendar this year was Chairman
of the Sno-Daze Committee Jim
Carlson and Jerry Falr, President
of the Sophomore class.
Penny Watkins reigns over Sno-Daze
Christianity is incompatible with racial bigotry
To the editor:
In speaking of his experience
with the Islam religion, Malcolm
X said:
"Never have I witnessed such
sincere hospitality and the
overwhelming spirit of true
brotherhood as is practiced by
people of all colors and races—
the "white" attitude was re-moved
from their minds by the
religion of Islam—. We were
truly all the same (brothers)
—because their belief in one
God had removed the "white"
from their minds, the "white"
from their behavior, and the
"white" from their attitude—.
With racism plaguing America
like an incurable cancer, the
so-called "Christian" white Am-erican
heart should be more
receptive to a proven solution
to such a destructive problem.
Perhaps it could be in time to
save America from imminent
disaster —."
Malcolm X grew up exposed to
Christianity — his father was even
a preacher, but somehow the real
message of God's creation of all
men in his own image and his
commands for justice and love a-mong
the brotherhood of humanity
was not taken seriously enough to
be practiced by whites. Is it any
wonder that Malcolm X did not
realize Jesus Christ as the answer
to his life?
The essence of Christianity is an
individual's acceptance of God's
kingdom or reign over his life,
certainly incompatible with racial
bigotry. Despite this, it is said that
11:00 on Sunday morning is Am-erica's
most segregated hour. God's
creation of man, not different
kinds of man, but man was in his
own image. Do we have a right
to make a distinction which God
himself did not make? Galatians
3: 28 says "for you are all one in
Christ Jesus." How can we then
have the audacity to deprive black
Americans of their human dignity
and rights by forcing them to be
our "mascots" or Uncle Toms in
order to be accepted? —WE ARE
ALL ONE — When will we love
and accept them for the individual
human beings that they are? Jesus
Christ taught and lived the life of
love. We too, as his followers are
to be known for our love for the
brethren — to love one's neighbor
as oneself. What if Malcolm X had
seen this love practiced by white
Christians?
"Let us not love in word or
speech but in deed and in truth."
(John 3: 18) Love embodies action
and its prerequisite is justice. In
Christianity and Social__ Justice,
Msgr. Luigi Civardi says "to do
(one) justice (is) to give him what
is due him, and no one can say
that he is doing charity to a bro-ther
if he has not done him full
justice first." God demands justice,
"let justice roll down like waters,
and righteousness like an ever-flowing
stream," (Amos 5: 25) and
he will have it even at the expense
of white, Christian Americans.
The Christian conscience has
been negligent and silent. The Bi-ble
says to love one's neighbor
but we won't let Blacks be our
neighbors; we've cultivated indif-ference
when God has taught us
to help others when they have
need; we dedicate our minds to
sublime things and ignore God in
our daily lives where social in-justices
occur; and, we delegate
our responsibility to the courts,
excusing ourselves from exercising
the justice God demands of every
man. (Paraphrased, Rabbi Heshel)
Actually we are isolating ourselves
— protecting our self-centered,
"safe" lives which risk discomfort
from too much awareness or in-volvement
in crucial issues.
Rev. Will Cambell, author of
Race and Renewal of the Church,
aptly states, "We are asking, 'what
can we do to improve race rela-tions
and still maintain the str-ength
and rate of growth of the
"comfortable institution?" The
answer to that question is 'No-thing!'
" The life of love for others
that Christ teaches involves some
personal sacrifice.
I ask along with Martin Luther
King, "Shouldn't it be our Judeo-
Christian faith which transforms
the jangling discords of America
into a beautiful symphony of bro-therhood?"
We have failed people
like Malcolm X all too often. Chri-stianity
has been marred by our
failure to believe and live what
Christ teaches; we can and must
change — praying for his spirit,
seeking to love all men with his
love and thereby honor him and
his entire creation.
Jackie Goodman '71
Senior questions validity of the spirit exhibited in
President's message of semester's opening chapel
To the editor:
After much thought and discus-sion
with my fellow students I
find I can no longer remain silent;
I must express myself.
The spirit of Christian Love
which grew on this campus during
the Interim, on the choir tour and
with the study group in Israel
was something which made Bethel
come alive. Symposium, which I
participated in, brought with it a
chance to exchange ideas, concepts
and beliefs between many stu-dents
who would not normally
come in contact with one another.
Usually students hide themselves
in protective shells but the new
unity in Jesus overcame this ob-stacle.
People who were once "its"
became "thous". I began to under-stand
what others felt and cared
about and we shared love between
us and in Christ.
This new Spirit seemed to unite
everyone together and those of
us in Symposium expressed their
hopes and prayers at our last
meeting that this new found unity
centered upon Christ would natur-ally
be carried over to second sem-ester.
This Spirit was different from
others that had come to this
campus, it had no emotional up-lifting
or impact, just a quiet,
deep, mutual caring for one an-other's
lives, thoughts and needs.
It was a desire to put down streo-types,
miconception and to see the
The reality of Christ was expres-sed
in many ways, for each of us
loved Him and received love from
Him in unique individual relation-ships.
Christ was shared as a per-sonal
friend, and with_ in that
friendship was the spirit and love
we had for one another. That was
our guide for life — our goal was
to be more like the Saviour.
continued on page 3
1— "FORGET IT, BUDDY. MY FRIEND FROM THE LANDLORDS' ASSOCIATION SAYS YOU'RE ON
HIS LIST NOT ONLY AS A TENANT'S UNION RADICAL, BUT AS A CARD—CARRYING
Page 2 the CLARION Friday, February 13, 1970 UNIVERSITY STUDENT."
Bethel needs minority
group recruitment, why?
When the North Central examining team visited Bethel's campus
a year ago, one of the criticisms they handed down was that the com-munity's
population was too homogeneous. Their recommendation
was that Bethel must create a greater diversity among its student body
by including both more minority students and more disadvantaged
students in its campus population, or endanger itself of losing its ac-creditation.
In spite of this statement, the faculty committee on Minority
Groups has been working for two years to get faculty approval on a
mild recommendation which calls for the active recruitment of min-ority
students, the expansion of the effort required to make them
successful here, the re-examination of curriculum to include, where
possible, new courses of interest to minority students and to com-pensate
in existing courses for the present under emphasis on the con-tributions
of the various minority groups. For two years the recom-mendations
bounced back to committee after being tabled for further
discussion, revision, re-examination.
The recommendation was finally passed by unanimous voice vote
last week after a flury of discussion. Attitudes seemed to be generally
in favor, but noncommittal. — We need minority students, but there's
too much involved. It'll never happen. It'll cost too much and there
will be too much effort involved — it's easier not to change.
Two courses dealing with different areas on black culture, Black
Literature and Rhetoric of Black Revolt, were structured for the
Interim. Out of these two classes came a core of students concerned
with the role that Bethel is playing in the issue of minority groups
and recruitment.
They formed a group called share which has committed itself
"to provide at Bethel a wider educational experience through the re-cruitment
of minority students, to provide an opportunity for educa-tional
disadvantaged individuals to obtain a higher education at
Bethel." They have already sponsored a film and a concert which
raised almost $200. Good. So what? Why do we need minority students
at Bethel?
First. The North Central evaluation team indicated that to continue
on the present trend of homogenity, would jeopardize our accredi-tation
as a liberal arts college. Do you want the college to lose its
accreditation two years after you leave? How do you think that's going
to look on the records? "B.A. from Bethel Colege. Hmmm — Say,
didn't that place lose its accreditation just after you graduated?"
Second. There must be a reason why the North Central evaluation
team thinks that homogenity is bad. There appear to be several reasons.
A liberal arts college is supposed to prepare a person to face society
when he leaves. Whether we want to recognize the fact or not there are
blacks running around outside here and they are becoming more and
more a part of everyday life—an everyday life with which Bethel students
are not being faced, but will be when they leave. Are we going to face
life with the outdated ideas and attitudes of our parents? We may
even have good ideas about the way things should be and the willing-ness
to change, but there is a big difference between how things
should be and how far you can go towards that goal. We need experience.
What type of relationship could you or would you develope with a
black boss, minister or neighbor?
There is a more basic reason why. An environment, to remain
fresh and creative, must change. It must "get new blood" into its
system. Why do you think cousins are not allowed to marry? Anything
that is living is continually changing and adapting. A society is the
same way. We, at Bethel are presently committing incest. We need to
examine all sides of every question, constantly searching for better
ways. And who knows? We may be able to benefit from the relation-ships
which would develope. We may learn a better way, or find our
own way more meaningful. If we've got a good thing going, its absurd
to run scared. Since we are only human beings we must continually
examine the possibility that God has not given us WASP's everything
there is to have.
Third. These reasons why Bethel's population should include min-ority
groups are good, but extremely self-interest oriented, which is
not what Christians ought to be. The issue ought to be presented
from the Christian perspective also. Look around you. How many
American minority students do you see? Do you know what percent
of the U.S. population is actually what we term minority group?
The faculty committee on Minority Groups called Bethel a white
ghetto. They were right. We're a racist institution. We love ourselves
to the exclusion of everyone else. We are perpetuating that institution
of slavery of our great-great grandfathers' time.
It is our responsibility as Christians to do all we can to destroy
these attitudes. It is our responsibility to attempt to repair the damage—
or at least not hinder them in repairing it themselves; to help those
who need help.
That is why we need minority students at Bethel. Now let's get in
there and examine all the possibilities of how it can be accomplished
and work towards that goal for next year.
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Bethel Forum
Israeli sojourners tell of escapades,
gain new perspective of Christianity
Friday, February 13, 1970
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Bethel Forum
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Spirit ot interim must live on
by Cindy Rostollan
While many students were brav-ing
the weather in Minnesota dur-ing
Interim, others sang and swam
in Florida, still others made a trip
to Israel and the Holy Land.
In a recent chapel service, var-ious
students told of their ex-periences
going to, staying in,
and leaving Israel, but a total of
81 made the trip, and a few of
the other students who made the
trip had some interesting com-ments
to make.
"For almost all of us," said
Joyce Bristow, "the Sunday morn-ing
service at the Garden tomb
was the spiritual highlight of the
trip. Everything else seemed so
commercialized, with people buy-ing
and selling all over, that I
soon began to feel, `so what.' But,
then when we were there at the
place where Christ had been bur-ied,
and most important, where he
had risen, these other things didn't
seem as important. No matter
what, Christ had been there and
he was there with us."
"The hardest thing for me in
Israel, was being a blonde," re-lates
Kathy Froelich. "In Israel
they just aren't used to blonde
people, and everywhere I would
go, everyone would stop and stare
at me. At first, it was flattering,
but later it really got annoying. 1
couldn't go anywhere by myself,
because people wouldn't leave me
alone."
For David Auge, one of his
most unusual experiences was giv-ing
a pint of blood when he was
low on money. As he said, "Paul
and I were just walking in the
old city and a fellow came up
and asked us if we'd like to make
$9. We thought it sounded fishy,
but I was almost broke, so we went
with him.
He took us to one of the sta-tions
in the old city where a kind
of Health Clinic was set up. A
young guy was sick, and in need
of blood, so his folks were paying
for the blood he needed. They took
me to an old antique looking room,
and stuck my arm through a hole
in the wall, so they could take the
blood out in another room next
door.
I thought for a minute, I was
going to lose my whole arm, so
I had Paul check around the cor-ner,—
everything was sterile and
it looked ok, so . . . When they
finished, I got my $9 and we left
for the hotel."
"What really struck me," began
Susan Verunac, "was the land it-self.
I expected desert and barren
wasteland, and yet it was so green.
It really surprised me, it was so
beautiful."
"What I liked best," said Cora
Gaalswyk, 'was the Galilee re-gion.
Christ centered most of his
ministry there and it was inter-esting
to see where He had been.
It was exciting to see what I had
been hearing and reading about
all my life. Everything was so
much more alive!"
The Masada Fortress, near the
Dead Sea, was a real highlight
for Gary Mamilton. "It's way out
in the desert, not a blade of grass
around, and yet there were baths
and swimming pools and different
other luxuries there during King
Herod's time. The contrast of the
barren desert to the magnificence
of the palace was fascinating."
To Betty Pettman, "One of the
best parts of the trip was the
extra-curricular activities! Another
girl and myself had a chance to
date a couple of Israeli guys much
of the time we were there and . . .
you can take it from there."
"My most unusual experience,"
begins Bob Gustafson, "came on
our last night. We were in New
Jerusalem walking down the
street, and suddenly a girl came
running and ran into Paul and
then me. She then got behind me,
trying to use me as a shield be-tween
her boyfriend and herself.
He was trying to choke her.
The military police then came
along, and picked me up, thinking
I was at fault. When I moved from
in front of the girl, the boyfriend
jumped at her again, and this
time Dave tripped him to stop
him. The police picked him up
then, and after some explaining,
apologized to us."
After some thinking, Mary Mey-er
said, "What I thought was real
meaningful to me was the first
time we drove into Jerusalem, and
Maurice Zaffke announced this
past week that he plans to dedicate
one of the issues of the Coeval to
the emphasis of musical expres-sion.
He said that he is hopeful that
the issue will examine all aspects
of music, approaching it from an
anthropological and philisophical
point of view as well as include
some original compositions of Be-thel
students.
"Some of the music classes are
required to do some composing,"
everybody sang "The Holy City."
It was probably the first time
could really realize the words of
the song. It was something you
just have to experience."
There were many unusual and
meaningful experiences in the trip,
and yet what seemed to stand out
with most of the students was the
fact that it was really easy to lose
their spiritual perspective while
they were there. "We saw so many
churches and the different places
where Christ had been, that some-times
we would forget about our
own personal Christ who lives
within us."
No one had anything bad to say
about the trip, instead there were
just too many things good to say
about it. Personally, as one who
didn't go, there is the need to
say, "Israel, anyone?"
Zaffke reported, "and this is an
area of the campus arts that has
been neglected in the past." He
says that he has contacted mem-bers
of the music department and
that they will be encouraging their
students to submit their work to
this issue of the Coeval.
"The entries should be of a na-ture
that will be of some use to
other students,' says Zaffke. This
would include work along the lines
of church music, folk music, etc.
He will also accept critical essays
continued from page 2
And as second semester opened
you could feel it all around; the
spring had come early to Bethel.
It was a new home of honesty un-like
any other I had seen in my
four years here at school — A
definite desire to care for and
help one another as brothers and
sisters in Christ.
And Monday as I walked into
Chapel (the first of second sem-ester)
I expected to worship my
Lord in this unity of Love. But
I was disappointed by the puritani-cal
"Christian" package that was
delivered. Here was a time to be-gin
a new semester with a spirit-ual
message of Christ's Love but
in its place we received a message
To the editor:
Has anyone ever considered
freezing the tuition for a student
once he has started at Bethel?
I, for one, was quite dismayed to
learn from last week's Clarion
that tuition was being raised an-other
$200. This makes a total of
$350 in increases since I returned
to Bethel last year. I am married
and have one child and an un-expected
increase such as this is
quite a blow to my budget to say
nothing of my morale.
I think is would improve stu-dent-
administration relations a
of music and aesthetics.
The submission deadline is Ap-ril
24. The editor hopes to have
the issue out two weeks after this
deadline.
on man's rules and regulations for
this Christian community (archaic
as some may be).
The negative tone, the negative
attitude and the disillusionment
created on our campus through
that chapel service is evident by
the reaction during that chapel
itself and the conversation all dur-ing
the following week.
I know the Spirit of Interim will
live on among the students and
faculty whom it has touched. I
only pray that it will become more
that Christ will be explored more
fully and what was so important
that Monday morning will drift
away from our minds.
Thomas W. Mesaros '71
great deal if a student would have
to pay the same tuition for any
consecutive year he attends Beth-el.
I know that this is being done
at Gustavus Adolphus College in
St. Peter, Minn. A program such
as this would induce more students
to stay at Bethel for their com-plete
four-year education also.
I realize that this is not the
complete solution to gaining and
keeping students, but believe that
it would be a step in the right
direction.
Duane Peterson
Class of '71
Tues., Feb. 10, afternoon and
evening saw the Bethel Speech
Dept. hosting on campus the Twin
City Debate League's annual "For-ensic
Fun" tournament for 130
speakers from 14 area schools.
The 6 speaking events included
two divisions of oral interpreta-tion,
original oratory, extempor-aneous
speaking, after-dinner and
rhetorical criticism. Each partici-pating
school was allowed 12
speaking slots to be filled in any
way felt to be the most advant-ageous
for winning the sweep-stakes
award.
Bethel placed 3 speakers in final
rounds with Carol Shimmin speak-ing
in Rhetorical Criticism on Mal-com
X's speech "The 'Ballot and
the Bullet", Marg Erickson com-peting
in extemporaneous and
Sherie Lindvall taking a first place
in After-dinner with an entertain-ing
speech on natural beauty. The
Bethel Speakers placed 3rd in the
line-up for sweepstakes.
Carol and Marg will be partic-ipating
in their respective events
at Eau Claire this week-end.
Some of the schools on campus
for the event were Eau Claire,
UMD., U of M., Moorehead, St.
Teresas, Gustavus, St. Marys, Su-perior
State, Mankato with Mac-alester
placing 1st in sweepstakes.
Carol Shimmin placed in the final rounds with her Rhetori-cal
Criticism on Malcom X's speech at the Forensics Tournament
here Thursday.
Marg Erickson made the final rounds in
Extemporaneous Speaking, will go on to Eau
Claire.
Sherie Lindvall took first in After-dinner
Speaking with a speech on natural beauty.
Coeval to dedicate issue to musical expression
Student questions tuition raise,
proposes option to yearly increase
Bethel hosts speech tourney, places three finalists
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"You mean I'm really going?
I quite frankly didn't expect they'd
pick me, I mean I really thought—
I wonder where I'll be."
Shortly before Christmas, the
Student Missionary Committee,
headed by Dan Versaw and Dr.
Arthur Lewis, made the final de-cision
on what students would be
taking part in the Student Mis-sionary
Project for the summer of
1970.
During Interim contacts were
being made to finalize the fields
for the sixteen chosen students.
Now as second semester is in
process, most of the students have
a definite field waiting for them
this summer.
Going to Morocco under Trans
World Radio, will be Pat Tyberg,
a junior from Grantsburg, Wiscon-sin.
Pat Chase, a sophomore from
Rocky Hill, Connecticut, will be
working under Belgium Gospel
Mission in Belgium. Though her
destination isn't yet certain, Linda
Lovgren, a junior from Hinckley,
Minnesota, will also be serving in
some area of Europe.
This summer will be the first
time one of the student mission-aries
will be serving with mission-aries
from our Baptist General
Conference. Barbara Lind, a junior
from Bloomfield, Connecticut, is
going to Brazil under the BGC.
With Wycliffe in Mexico, will
be Paul Stimers, a junior from
Action Models Fair
draws national
experts in social work
continued from page 1
West Garfield Park area of Chi-cago;
Operation Switchboard of
San Francisco which uses corn-munications
systems to render ser-vice
to people in trouble; the
Southern Center in Chicago, an
organization designed to help poor
people from Appalachia become
acclimated to urban life; the Cen-ter
for Dialog of Dade County,
Florida which provides a neutral
ground for encounter between pol-arized
persons and groups leading
toward direct action on commun-ity
problems; the HELP Unit of
San Francisco, organized by Dr.
Joel Fort, a highly regarded ex-pert
in the field of drug use and
abuse and also in the field of
human sexuality; the Symbiotic
Community of Sioux Falls, South
Dakota which presents a new ap-proach
to land settlement patterns
by combining urban and rural in-gredients
in developing regional
communities; and the Liberty Plaza
housing project of St. Paul — rec-ognized
as one of the nation's
finest examples of low-income
housing built under non-profit,
church sponsorship by Dayton Ave-nue
Presbyterian Church.
Each of the booths will be man-ned
by a number of the project
staff. Arrangements are being
made for each project to make
three presentations per day. The
whole process will be repeated for
each of the three days of the
Fair. In this way it will be con-venient
for the public to become
thoroughly informed about any
projects in which he has an inter-est.
A Fair Guide will be distri-buted
listing each project and re-lated
information.
Friday, February 13, 1970
Muskegon, Michigan. As of yet,
there isn't a definite field clear-ed
for Dale Berry, a junior from
Isle, Minnesota, but he will probab-ly
be working in the area around
Central or South America.
Darlene Chaddock, a sophomore
from Bethel Park, Pennsylvania,
will be heading north into British
Columbia, to work under North
American Indian Mission.
Working in the United States
this summer will be Cindy Ros-tollan,
a junior from Saxon, Wis-consin,
who will be going to Ko-diak
Island, Alaska. Nita Nelson,
a sophomore from Brainard, Min-nesota,
Rachel Campbell, a junior
from Hazelhurst, Mississippi, Dar-lene
Griffith, a sophomore from
Orlando, Florida, High McLeod, a
sophomore from St. Paul, and Har-ley
Hanson, a junior from Long
Prairie, Minnesota, will all be
working under the Baptist Gen-eral
Conference Home Mission in
Minnesota.
The stand-bys, whose fields are
not yet definite, are Shelly Daniel-son,
a sophomore from Morrisdale,
Pennsylvania, Ruth LaBonte, a
freshman from Black Mountain,
North Carolina, and Marjorie An-derson,
a junior from Rockford,
Illinois.
Pray for these students as they
begin planning their summers, and
remember while your'e praying,
that these that are sent, are your
representatives.
The budget for this year's Stu-dent
Mission Project reaches $4,-
000 and so far, only $1,500 has
been realized. To help finances,
and for everyone's convenience,
there is a box for the missionary
project in the coffee shop. If you
have any extra money when you're
at the banking window (if that is
at all possible), the ladies working
there will credit it to the Mission
Project. There will be not offer-ing
as such during Founders Week,
so some might like to use these
boxes for their weekly offering
next week.
For those interested, every Mon-day
night at 6:30, a short prayer
meeting is held for those involved
in the Missionary Project.
Bethel student missionaries receive
notification of summer destinations
by Betty Eckstrom
How would you like to spend
your Easter break on a skiing hol-iday?
Don Nelson, in conjunction
with the physical education depart-ment,
is organizing a ski trip to
Jackson. Hole Wyoming in the
Teton Mountains.
At Jackson Hole, 4,135 vertical
feet of skiing, and a wide variety
of terrain so that no matter what
class of skier you are in—begin-ner,
intermediate, expert—you will
find something you like. A 2,260
foot long double chairlift serves
a gentle ski school slope at the
base of the area.
The intermediate skier will find
on the 2,175 vertical feet of Apres
Vous Peak some of the best inter-mediate
terrain in America. On
Rendezvous Peak, the big moun-tain,
the expert and intermediate
will be in their glory. The inter-i
mediate may choose to disembark
from the aerial tram at tower
three. He will still have up to five
miles of skiing to the Valley Sta-tion.
Jackson Hole's 63 passenger
aerial tram rises from Teton Vil-lage
at 6,311 feet above sea level
to the top of Rendezvous Peak,
10,446 feet; one of the world's
major tramway installations, it
rises 4,135 vertical feet in a dis-tance
of 2.4 miles. It required 26
months to build and cost almost
$2 million.
Now you may be asking not only
how you can get in on this fan-tastic
trip but also how much it
will cost and what will the price
include. For $115 you will get all
transportation (Greyhound), seven
nights of lodging at the Buckrail
Lodge, and six full days of skiing
with the price of all lift tickets
also included. All that is not cov-ered
is equipment rental, which
you can take care of inexpensively
at Bethel, and food, which will
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Jilin Ikebieth
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
once there was a storie 'bout a thief named Butch
an' his bossman, "the kid"
an' they did many things tagether
an' som were good — but most were bad
but bot' a' them were people like you an' me
who do som' things good but mostly bad
an' this storie was made inta' one a' thos' things
call'd movin pi'tures
an' it seem'd ta' me that lots a' people
really enjoyed it
cause was a comedy an' notin' more
nobodie tried ta' tell a stork that
folks lik' me couldn't understand
an' me an my friend went one night
an' we laffed so hard we couldn't walk strait
an' they did somtine real funny in the beginin'
all the people an' buildings were brown an' whit'
it was kinda different
an' the storie kept us on the tips of our toes
ready to run for ol' Sundance and Butch if
they got tired and did they ever
they got tired a' hunnin'
in fac', that wes the whole storie
Butch an' Sundance jus' runnin' an' runnin'
an' this storie is kinda queer
'cause all a' the sudd'n ya re'lize
you lov these people! (oh no! a crying shame!)
jus' like the "good ole Book" says
'Lou your enemie!"
an' you start ta' think 'bout all
the mostly bad things they do
an' how it doesn't make any difference 'cause
you lov em!
an' in the end it comes ta min'
that your "enemies" all are gonna die
for all the mostly bad things
an' you feel real sad,
cause you lov em!
Tbeetther 3hebieM
Mac's rock musical explores black-white relations
by Marjorie M. Rusche
Speaking of educational reform
and innovation (see last week's
Clarion), a few Macalester students
have worked out an interim pro-ject
that innovates not only aca-demically
but also musically and
theatrically.
Their thing is "Freedom Suite",
an original rock musical exploring
the problem of black-white re-lations,
alienation, loneliness, and
love. It happens in Macalester's
Weyerhaeuser Chapel, which is
an octagonal stage in the rooms
front center area with the pews
grouped around in a semi-circular
fashion.
"Freedom Suite's" script was
written by Larry Jacobsen, a 22
year old black Minneapolis author.
He also did many of the lyrics
for the songs. Music, mostly hard
rock with some folk thrown in,
was composed by Jeff Schroeder
and John Katsontonis, who also
played in "Freedom Unveiled",
the back-up group that served the
function of a pit orchestra for the
musical.
The plot centers around Joker,
a young black just released on
parole, Nancy, a naive white girl
(cursed with an over-ambitious
senator for a father) who plays
"social worker" in a ghetto and
falls for Joker. Joker gives Nan-cy
security and affection — some-thing
she desparately needs due
to parental neglect.
The security is false (as security
usually is), for when she tells Jo-ker
that she's pregnant just after
Joker proposes marriage Joker
decides it's time to cut out and
disclaims any responsibility for
the unborn child.
Nancy runs home to try to talk
to her father, but he, busily con-sulting
his political advisor over
some phraseology in a speech, ig-nores
her until she blurts out,
"Dad, I'm pregnant."
Then he starts listening; no not
really listening, but at least re-acting.
"What! We warned you!
We told you not to hang around
that dirty no-good hippie Timmy."
(Timmy was Nancy's old boyfriend,
whom Nancy had been forbidden
to see since he was the "wrong
sort" and would ruin her father's
political image.) Nancy explains
that Timmy's not the one, but
Joker, a black man. At discovering
this perfidious breach of morality,
Senator Day rushes towards his
daughter and attempts to murder
her.
The close of the musical finds
Nancy running to her old flame's
(Timmy) pad, desparate for a lit-tle
understanding and genuine hu-man
concern. He, however, is hap-pily
tripped out on some "no-no's."
Nancy tells her tale of woe to
Tim who is dreamily sitting there
exclaiming, "It's so beautiful!
Wow!." Nancy's crying. Tim says,
'Here, take this." She hesitates,
then pops the pill.
Her trip is a bad one. All the as-sociation-
laden figures from her
past and present slowly advance
from every direction until they
surround and symbolically suf-focate
her. She is buried. Her par-ents
and "friends" hypocritically
cry for her bones, then file off
stage and resume their normal
lives.
The denouncement comes as Jo-ker
remains on stage staring at
Nancy's dead body. A new white
girl comes from the anonominity
of the audience and walks into
Joker's vision. Joker's pitch comes,
"Hey, you look lonely." She nods.
They walk off together, leaving
Nancy's corpse to rot.
Well. That's a sketchy outline
of the plot. There are many more
subplots dealing with racism, hy-pocrisy,
difference between black
and white cultures, etc. The play
seems overly-obvious while you're
sitting through it, but gains com-plexity
upon reflection.
The music fits well with the
drama, thematically and rythmat-ically,
although there are some
rough spots in transition. Obvious-ly,
it makes good theatrical sense
to use contemporary music forms
to emphasize the contemporary
theme of the play. The music was
composed fairly well, but gener-ally
poorly performed. The actors
were much better actors than sing-ers.
If you have a chance, take the
time to go see the play. It's still
running this weekend, Saturday
and Sunday nights at 8 P.M. in
Macalester's chapel. Student tick-ets
cost a dollar and can be pur-chased
at the door.
Friday, February 13, 1970 the CLARION Page 5
by Steve Duinick
It seems to be "black week" here at Bethel College and Seminary.
I am very happy that this long overdue event has finally made some
headway into school. We at our protective institution have had it easy
for far too long before someone like the Black Literature class has had
the initiative to stick it in our face. For some of us it is a big step out
of our way, for others it is the chance to back up God's Word, and yet
for others it is the "Natch'l thing."
But why are we going out of our way to help educate the blacks
when there are many poor whites too? That seems to be a question
asked when ever the suggestion of helping the American Negro out of
his pit is raised.
Questions such as these usually originate from the mouths of those
least knowledgeable on the black subject but yet feel themselves well-informed
on the current issue. There are reasons why we should help
our black neighbors and most of these arguments are beyond our ear
range since we are so far out of communication with their world.
My early contact with the subject at hand came from my elders
and usually sounded something like, "those black should
learn their place" or "there is nothing wrong with niggers, everyone
should own one." My next confrontation with the dark side came from
their soul music that most high school kids latched on to so quickly. It
was a style, a Negro at this time, but a date was above and beyond the
call of duty.
Once I got into Bethel College things changed drastically and I
found myself far from any contact with the outside world. It wasn't until
this year and a movie called "Putney Swope" that I heard my black
brothers screaming for recognition. Dean Pearson has also helped obtain
some relations between the colored barriers by having parties involving
some of his black friends yet this is only minimal exposure to the sub-ject
and needs many times the attention it has received.
There is no way I can inform you on the situation here at school
(if you haven't already noticed) since I don't believe we even have a
situation, or not yet anyway. What I know of their problems you could
put under your fingernails and still have room for dirt. Also I don't
believe any of us here are authorities on the Negro subject or are even
well-informed. That is why their presence is long overdue not matter
how painful or injurious they are to our quiet little sub-culture.
Bo Conrad and company made an entertaining scene
Monday night. Benefits went towards minority recruitment.
Spit Band MIN =I `feels fine'
Male chorus, historians plan European tour
by Carroll Jarp
While most of us are busily
working this summer some of our
fellow Bethelites will be touring
Europe. A chartered plane will
wing the Bethel Male chorus and
a history tour to Frankfurt, Ger-many
where each group will pro-ceed
to pursue its own course.
According to C. Howard Smith,
director, this will be the second
over-seas tour for the male chorus.
The tour will include many of
the same countries they toured in
1966: Sweden, Denmark, Norway,
Scotland, the greater London area,
and will finish up in Germany.
For the most part, performances
will be held in churches. "There
are so few young people who at-tend
church in Europe," states
Smith, "and we hope to draw them
into the churches through the
ministry of music. The chorus will
present their regular repertoire
sung in English with a few Swe-dish
songs."
The 40 members of the chorus
will be lodged in private housing tour), Richard Ward, assistant pro-arranged
by key people in each fessor of history, will be leading
country. "I anticipate little prob- the tour only if sufficient student
lem in communicating with the interest is indicated. To date, only
people while in their homes," said nine students have signed up for
Smith, "since communication on the tour and a minimum of 25
the last tour was very minimal. students is needed. Ward stressed
Most European and Scandinavian the fact that the tour will desist
young people now days speak Eng- unless more than 20 sudents show
lish quite well." The group will an interest by February 18. To-travel
by bus, train and boat, giv- tal cost of the history tour is
ing a total of 35 concerts. $914, and all interested students
The history tour, meanwhile, are encouraged to see Ward by
will be viewing historical sights February 18.
in England, France, Swetzerland, Smith also stressed the fact
Austria, Germany, Italy, Czecho- that there are still available seats
slovakia, and East and West Berlin. for any interested students, facul-
It is basically a study tour which ty, friends, or relatives wishing to
will be historically and culturally visit Europe on their own. The
oriented, and will include on sight cost per person for the round
study with required reading prior trip flight is $260. Interested per.-
to the tour. Students participating sons should contact C. Howard
in the tour and fulfilling the re- Smith or Gary McCann.
quired reading will be granted Both tours will run from June
three credits toward general edu- 7th through July 16th and are
cation requirements. being arranged through the Col-
Due to the illness of Dr. Dalton lege City Travel Service in North-
(who was to have conducted the field.
by Janet Appelquist
A group called The Lovin' Spoon-ful
used to sing, "Well, the doc-tor
said, 'Give him jug band mu-sic.
You know it makes him feel
so fine.' " After listening to the
therapeutics of the Bo Conrad
Spit Band, what can you say when
you "feel so fine"? "Wow" just
doesn't quite seem sufficient. But
your mouth is smiling so much you
can't form the words and your
hands are numb from clapping and
your feet from tapping. And your
heart is happy just knowing you've
been around when something great
was going on.
An enumeration of the events
would take forever since every
little thing seemed an event in
iteself; from Dean Lindberg's fan-cy
footwork to Mark Steward's
tuxedoed contrast with the rest
of the band's less formal attire
(understatement!), not to mention
the inimitable Steve Duinick and
the group's namesake, the one-and-only
Harold "Bo" Conrad. Filling
out the ensemble were Robert Vork
with some fancy "knee"-work
(don't ask questions, just keep
reading), Bill Moline, Larry Os-trom,
and the "big man on the
wash-tub bass', Dave Frykman,
whose sensational jug band post-ers
were auctioned during inter-mission.
The versatile Steve Duinick led
the sale in true auctioneering
style. Proceeds from admissions
and the poster sale netted about
$190 for the very worthy cause
of American Minority Group schol-arships
at Bethel. A count of 250
paid admissions indicates that a-bout
25% of the campus had a
"real good time" last Monday.
As a post-script it should be
added that, not only does each
member do "his own thing" on
stage, but the music produced is
really great. The musicianship is
surprisingly competent. Besides
performing about seventeen old
favorites, some of the members
demonstrated their versatility by
playing their own compositions.
With personality and talent like
this abounding, the Bo Conrad
Spit Band should go down in his-tory
(or at least, on record).
Page 6 the CLARION Friday, February 13, 1970
Bethel man Gordy Nordmark watches ap-prehensively
as Andy Feldman attempts an-other
sinker.
Cagers whip Lumberjacks; entertain
visiting Briar Cliff and Mankato State
by Rich Zaderaka but didn't hold it for long. The
The Royals have a rugged week- Royals stormed back, and after
end schedule, going against the the lead had changed hands twice,
Chargers of Briar Cliff tonight, a tip-in by Andy Feldman put
and against the Indians of Man- Bethel up to stay. The Royals
kato State tomorrow evening. Both reeled in the next six buckets for
opponents will have definite height a 20-7 margin. During the final
advantages which Bethel will hope five minutes of the half, the Jacks
to offset with the home court fac- shaved the deficit to 26-20.
tor. Northland's Dick Lee pumped
Bethel opened their season a- in seven points in the opening min-gainst
Briar Cliff on November utes of the second half, to pull the
21. The Royals led at half 25-23, Jacks within two at 30-28. The
but didn't fare as well in the Royals blasted the game open at
second period and lost 56 45.
21.. Dan Larson and Andy Feldman Ed Wiltgen led all scorers with Skiers pack for Jackson Hole
each had 13 for Bethel.
Mankato has a season record of
4-14, but will be a tougher op-ponent
than that statistic indi-cates.
The Indians defeated Briar
Cliff 73-69 last Friday. On Sat-urday,
the Mankato frosh (eight
of whom are on the varsity) de-feated
the University of Minnesota
freshmen 66-54. Rich Pearson,
who led Duluth Central to a sec-ond
place finish in the state tourn-ament
last year, spearheaded the
victory over Minnesota with 27
points. Walt Williams, a member
of Proviso East's Illinois state
championship team, added 12
points and pulled down 11 re-bounds.
Last Friday the Royals whipped
Northland 70-51. The Lumber-jacks
snatched an early 5-0 lead,
The Column
by Tim Weko
Before doing anything else, I must say how glad the basketball
team was for the band playing at the game. It was their first appearance
of the year, due to other circumstances. Anyone who has ever parti-cipated
in a competitive sport realizes the benefit of noise, and the
sound level in a gym is raised quickly with the presence of a band.
So far as I'm concerned, the band can play "Peter Gun" to their
heart's content at all upcoming games. Thanks again, band.
Speaking of basketball, the Royals have won three in a row, now
and are looking for their fourth and fifth this weekend. The team
seems to be rolling finally after a rather choppy take off. But, it
seems that just as the team is beginning to move Founders Week is
upon us.
Founders Week, with all its fans, festivities, founders and fun is
nice because a person can go to a lot of meetings free, miss a lot of
classes without a guilty conscience, and see his pastor or his parents,
(and don't get me wrong, I like to see my folks as much as the next
guy) but have you ever tried to practice half-court meaningfully? I
mean, here we are hot as pistols with six games to go and practice gets
cut to one half hour of taking chairs down, 15 minutes of practice time,
and then another half hour to set the chairs up again.
After so many times of setting up chairs and taking them down
again those chairs seem to take on a personality, and they start to get
on your nerves until finally you'd like to heave a couple right across the
floor. But, that would be childish, wouldn't it?
Anyway, do you think the founders would be offended if someone
asked each one of them who was sitting in a chair on the main floor
during the last afternoon session to carry it to the side of the floor?
You think they'd be offended, huh? What if someone suggested it any-how?
At least that way if we can't have the whole floor we can at least
have more time.
There have been rumors each Founders Week that the basketball
game is fixed. I don't mean that the coach or the athletic director or
whoever, schedules a patsy, a pushover, someone who the Royals could
play with to show the founders what a good team Bethel has.
Let me say that these rumors are not true. It is true that the last
three Founders Week games have been pretty funny but let me ex-plain:
Three years ago Bethel had an intra-squad scrimmage instead of
a game because its opponent, Northwestern (Iowa), was snow bound. A
legitimate excuse: Two years ago Bethel had to play Northwestern junior
varsity again because their varsity coach said the varsity was involved
in tournament play and he didn't want to tire them out for the big push.
Well, how ridiculous can you get? I mean, when you schedule a game,
you're responsible to play it, right?
So that's why the Founders Week games in recent years have
seemed to be setups. That plus the fact that very few teams, if any, will
schedule a game away from home on a Thursday afternoon. It's just not
prime time.
But this year the founders will have no excuses for sitting meekly
back in their seats and silently watching the Royals massacre someone
with their third string. I've often wondered how people who could talk
all day and all night in meetings could never muster a cheer, even a
weak "Hooray," at a basketball game. Founders certainly are strange
because when they get a chance to yell and shout and let off all that
steam from those musty old meetings they sit passively and occasionally
clap their hands. Maybe it's standing for the National Anthem that tires
them out.
The Founders Week game is notorious for its huge, huge number
of fans and its quiet; and fans quiet, by definition, do not belong in the
same gym.
An engrossed manager and bench watch
their teammates whip the Ashland Lumber-jacks.
that point to go on top by 46-32,
with nine minutes remaining. A
layup by Dan Larson at the 4:34
mark gave Bethel a 58-38 advant-age.
The biggest point spread was
24 with less than three minutes
on the clock.
Leading scorers for Bethel were
Andy Feldman, Dan Larson, and
Gordy Nordmark, with 19, 16, and
11 respectively. Northland's Dick
Lee pitched in eight baskets and
seven free throws, to take game
honors with 23.
continued from page 4
cost approximately $3 to $4 per
day (unless you have more ex-pensive
tastes.)
For those who have not made a
deposit, $75 is due before Feb. 12
and the remaining $40 is due be-fore
Feb. 26. It is to be paid at
the banking window, and is also
completely refundable until Feb.
28. For those who want skiing
credit, the Phy. Ed. department
is offering one credit for lessons
culminating with the trip to Jack-son
Hole.
According to the present plans,
those going will depart at 4 p.m.
on the afternoon of Friday, March
27 and will arrive in Jackson Sat-urday
afternoon or early evening.
Following a full night of rest,
there will be an early morning
Easter sunrise service at the base
of the slopes. From then until
Friday, April 3, the agenda in-cludes
skiing! The group will re-turn
around 10 a.m. the morning
of April 4th and arrive back in
the Cities Sunday morning, April
5. That is, those who will not opt
to remain at Jackson. To quote a
friend, "Whatever your ability, at
Jackson Hole, the mountain is
magnificent. Try it—it spoils you.
It's the Gentle Giant!"
Royals host Southwest State
after bad showing at Pillsbury
Ladies undefeated streak
is broken against Carleton
Women's extramural basketball The Fairview nureses were Beth-at
Bethel got off to a strong start el's next opponents and they were
during Interim. Mrs. Marilyn Lind- defeated 44-23. Bethel hosted Con-man
stepped in to train and coach cordia and in their fourth game
the team since Miss Brownlee was again pulled in a victory. Fan sup-ill.
She did her work well — the port was enthusiastic, the final
team record now stands at 4 and 1. score was 36-24.
Augsburg fell first to the Bethel Then Bethel's only undefeated
women, 32-20. Mary Lindman, a team traveled to Carleton. The
team started off strong and kept
returning player, was high scorer on the pressure until the second
with ten points. Mary transferred half when Carleton pulled ahead.
to Wheaton for the second semes- Linda Schmidt had a great night
ter so the team was left without scoring 8 of the first 10 points
one of their leading players. and ending up with 16. Sharon
Bethel traveled down to Pills- Johnson followed with 12. How-bury
for their second game. The ever, Bethel was defeated 39-54.
first half was slow and Bethel The Bethel Women face some
trailed 22-9. But the girls sparked aough opponents in their remain-to
life in the second half, put ing games: University of Wiscon-together
an effective press and sin, River Falls, Uuniversity of
poured in 38 points. The game Minnesota, Augsburg, and St.
ended with Bethel on top 47-36. Cloud State.
Last Saturday the Royal wrest-lers
travelled to Pillsbury for a
seven team tournament in which,
despite a couple of good individual
performances by Bob Olsen and
Greg Ekbom, they finished in sixth
place. This weekend at 2 p.m. Sat-urday,
they will meet the South
west Minnesota State College Mus-tangs
in the Bethel Fieldhouse.
At Pillsbury the competition was
just too good as Bethel salvaged
a sixth place finish ahead of St.
Paul Bible. St. John's University
won the tourney followed respec-tively
by Southwest State, Lea Col-lege,
Pillsbury, Carleton, Bethel
and St. Paul Bible. St. John's has
a fine group of wrestlers as do
Southwest and Lea. Bethel manag-ed
its sixth place finish by virtue
of Olsen's second place finish in
the 190 pound class and Ekbom's
fourth place finish at 150 pounds.
Olsen's first opponent was from
Pillsbury. He pinned him with 12
seconds to go in the first period.
Later he wrestled Southwest's 190
pound man and pinned him at 4:22.
But in the championship round
Olsen was beaten, 3-2, by a wrest-ler
from Lea College.
Ekbom, wrestling in the 150
pound division, won his first match
by a decesion against Pillsbury,
but lost his next two to Lea and
Southwest wreslers for his fourth.
The other Bethel wrestlers all lost
in the first round which auto-matically
meant they could not
finish higher than fifth place.
Doug Warring injured his should-er
during one of his matches and
Barry Anderson will probably be
out for the rest of the season with
a shoulder separation suffered in
his first match. He had to for-feit.
When asked about the tourn-ament,
Bob Olsen said, "We didn't
wrestle up to our potential in quite
a few weights."
With four matches to go the
Royals meet Southwest State Sat-urday
in the fieldhouse. In a pre-vious
meeting between the two
weight classes except 126 pound,
167 pound and 190 pound. Bethel
must win these three as well as
giving a good showing in the other
weights in order to have a chance.
Warring has beaten his man once
before as has Olsen. 32 year old
Bob Downey will be meeting a
new Southwest wrestler in the 118
pound division who is 33 years
old. This will not be the battle of
the Titans but should prove to be
interesting.
Several of the Bethel team are
looking forward to this match in
order to avenge previous defeats.
Added incentive is present in the
fact that Royals won-lost record
now stands at a 8-7. They need
to win to finish with a good season.
Upcoming matches, which will
round out the season, find 'Bethel
at Hamline February 17, at Con-cordia
(St. Paul) February 19 dur-ing
Founders Week, and finally at
Pillsbury again for a dual meet
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Vol. XLV—No. 16
Friday, February 13, 1970
Love your founder as yourself
Founders invade campus next week
by Jack Priggen
By now almost everyone on campus has heard something of the
proposed recruiting of minority group students to Bethel. Last Wed-nesday,
February 4 the newly formed group, share, showed the film,
"Burden of Truth." Thursday, the fifth faculty passed a measure which
stated that they were in sympathy with the idea of minority group re-cruiting.
This came after some discussion both for and against the pro-posed
recruiting, but the recommendation was passed unanimously.
On Monday, February 9th 'Bo Conrad's Spit Band' presented a
tremendously successful 'concert' to raise money for the share scholar-ship
fund which is to provide financial aid for American racial minority
students. The group raised almost $190.
Thursday, February 26th the faculty hears a tape of an address
delivered to the United States Congress on Evangelism, September 9,
1969, by Tom Skinner. Tom Skinner is a black evangelist associated with
Billy Graham, one time leader of one of the largest gangs in Harlem,
New York, and author of the best seller "Black and Free." Mr. Skinner
lays down, in black and white, the responsibilities of evangelical institu-tions
to minority groups. This tape should prove valuable showing these
responsibilities to the faculty.
The first step has now been taken. This step could prove to be
small, fruitless, and in short, a farce. It could also prove to be one of the
greatest things to ever happen to Bethel.
There are several reasons why this program may not get out of the
planning stages. Money is one. Clearly the administration will have to
allot the recruitment office adequate funding to travel recruiting minor-ity
groups. Financial aid will definitely be required to help these stu-dents
meet the high cost of education at Bethel.
Another area of needed revision will be in both the administration
and faculty, namely setting up a program which would attract minority
group students to Bethel. If Bethel has nothing to offer the minority
student, he will not come.
Adjustments may have to be made at all levels by nearly everyone
to insure that the minority student once at Bethel will not be discrimin-ated
against. In general, preferred treatment of either black, white, or
indian in any way would be fatal to the program.
Today there are over 25,000,000 blacks in the U.S., but there are
less than 100 blacks at all evangelical colleges in the U.S. combined.
Is Bethel a segregated, "white ghetto" as the minority committee's
recommendation suggested? Do we have in our minds a God who is an
Anglo Saxon, middle class, protestant republican? If we want this first
step of interest to be a 'giant step' we (students and faculty) may have
to "make a lot of noise" for the Administration to hear us, and for the
Administration to include in its priorities and budget funds for re-cruiting
and financially helping minority students at Bethel.
Social action conference planned
Bethelites work for minority recruitment
Student activism stirs;
project 'share' initiated
On February 16-18, 1970, a un-ique
conference designed after a
county fair will be held at the
Pick-Nicollet Hotel in Minneapo-lis.
The conference will be known
as the Action Models Fair. Those
attending will be able to draw on
the resources of experts in the
field of social action from all over
the United States and Canada and
be able to implement in their own
communities, programs in hous-ing,
welfare, employment and
education.
On the three days of the Fair
over sixty models of what concern-ed
people are doing to bridge the
gaps in our society will be on dis-play.
This is one of the first at-tempts
to create and stockpile a
bank of human resources that will
tune in the Upper Midwest to
what is happening, not only with-in
this community, but across the
nation as well, to improve the
quality of contemporary society.
In November of 1968, Town
Meeting Incorporated, the Nation-al
Urban Coalition and the Amer-ican
Institute of Planners organ-ized
a conference on communica-tions
for the future. It featured
addresses by such noteables as
Whitney Young, Executive Dir-ector
of the Urban League, Ed-ward
P. Morgan of the Public
Broadcasting Laboratory, and oth-er
national figures. It also featured
"booths" in the hotel lobby where
conferees could see actual dem-onstrations
of innovative uses of
communications and have the op-portunity
to talk informally with
communications experts.
The "booth" approach was so
succesful that many conferees were
reluctant to return to the formal
sessions, no matter who the guest
speaker was.
Building on the experience of
the November, 1968 conference
on communications, George Nel-son
Associates, an educational con-sulting
firm in Minneapolis, in
conjunction with Luther Theolo-gical
Seminary in St. Paul and the
Urban Affairs Department of
Augsburg College decided to uti-lize
the "booth - county fair"
approach for a conference on soc-ial
action. The resulting concept
is the Action Models Fair.
The Fair will be open to the
public from 9 a.m. until 9 p.m.
There will be no formal sessions,
no lectures, no advance regis-tration.
The daily registration fee
is $1 for students and $2 for
others.
Twelve meeting and display
rooms will serve as the "booths"
of the Fair. In these rooms will
be experts in such diverse areas
of social action as: social comment-ary
film-making and the use of
the film medium; economic devel-opment
processes, rural and ur-ban;
uses of communications sys-tems
and networks for social
change; gearing business to the
needs of the community; non-pro-fit,
low-income housing projects;
emergency or "instant" community
service organizations; and total
community development processes.
A few of the organizations that
will have booths at the Fair as
resource models are: Christian Act-ion
Ministry Academy of Chicago,
a highly successful prep school
for high school dropouts from the
continued on page 4
"To the World with Love" is
the challenging theme of Bethel's
Founders Week, February 16-20.
A number of well-known and some
not so well-known speakers will
attempt to bring this theme to life.
Leading the four days of meet-ings
are Horace Fenton, the Dir-ector
of the Latin America Mission;
Harold Lindsell, Editor of Chris-tianity
Today; Donald McGavran,
Dean of the Fuller School of World
Missions and veteran of 32 years
of service in India; Jess Moddy,
author of the book with the pro-vocative
title A Drink At Joel's
Place; Oswald Smith, the founder
of the non-denominational Peoples
Church, Toronto; and Clyde Tay-lor,
Evangelical Missions Associ-tion
and a veteran worker in
Peru.
Activities of the week include
Freshman candidate, Penny
Watkins was crowned Sno-
Daze Queen Thursday evening
at the Camelot.
a banquet on Monday, a testimon-ial
session by students and faculty
on Tuesday and the preaching
competition on Wednesday. Thur-sday
there is a basketball game,
Bethel versus Concordia, and on
Friday the closing rally.
The highlight of the week will
be the dedication of the new fac-ilities
on the Arden Hills campus
which will take place on Wednes-day
at 2 o'clock. The speaker will
be Harvey Lindsell.
Other participants in the activ-ities
include Evelyn Christianson,
a pastor's wife from Rockford, Illi-nois
and active worker in wom-en's
work; Mildred Dienert, a
dynamic Bible teacher; and of
special interest to students, Rene
Padilla, head of the International
Fellowship of Evangelical Students
in South America.
The 1970 Sno-Daze Queen, Pen-ny
Watkins, was crowned at the
highlight of the Sno-Daze calen-dar
last night at the Camelot.
Penny, a petite freshman from
Brooklyn Center, Minnesota, was
chosen to reign over this year's
winter celebration in an all school
election that was held Wednesday.
She will be formally presented to-night
at the half time activities
in the game here against Briar
Cliff. Also included in the half
time activities tonight is the are
nual beard judging contest, de-signed
to award the Bethel male
with the best looking beard.
The weekend's events also in-clude
skating on the rink in the
center of the campus. The idea
In addition to these guest speak-ers,
twelve Conference mission-aries
will be present to act as re-source
persons in various work-shops
held throughout the week.
They include Vernon Anderson,
Brazil; Dale Bjork, Japan; Robert
Boyd, Argentina; Paul Edwards,
India; John Marrs, Brazil; George
Johnson, India; Bill Murray, Ethi-opia;
Franklin Nelson, Burma; Roy
Nelson, Phillippines; Glen Ogren.
Brazil; Glen Swanson, Japan; and
Herman Tegenfeldt, Burma. Their
presentations will be brief,giving
time for participation and inter-action.
Founders Week is expected to
draw more than 1000 visitors from
across the nation. They will join
with the Bethel Community in
seeking to investigate their theme,
"To the World with Love."
of a skating rink was brought back
to the ranks of tradition for Sno-
Daze last year by John Goodman
this year's Social Committee Chair-man.
Work on this year's rink started
during interim. The enthusiasm
of hockey players using the ice
about midnight Wednesday seems
to indicate that it is in good con-dition
for the weekends's festiv-ities,
which, incidentally, include
broomball for the non skaters.
The home game against Mankato
State Saturday evening will close
the Sno-Daze activities for another
year. In charge of the Sno-Daze
calendar this year was Chairman
of the Sno-Daze Committee Jim
Carlson and Jerry Falr, President
of the Sophomore class.
Penny Watkins reigns over Sno-Daze
Christianity is incompatible with racial bigotry
To the editor:
In speaking of his experience
with the Islam religion, Malcolm
X said:
"Never have I witnessed such
sincere hospitality and the
overwhelming spirit of true
brotherhood as is practiced by
people of all colors and races—
the "white" attitude was re-moved
from their minds by the
religion of Islam—. We were
truly all the same (brothers)
—because their belief in one
God had removed the "white"
from their minds, the "white"
from their behavior, and the
"white" from their attitude—.
With racism plaguing America
like an incurable cancer, the
so-called "Christian" white Am-erican
heart should be more
receptive to a proven solution
to such a destructive problem.
Perhaps it could be in time to
save America from imminent
disaster —."
Malcolm X grew up exposed to
Christianity — his father was even
a preacher, but somehow the real
message of God's creation of all
men in his own image and his
commands for justice and love a-mong
the brotherhood of humanity
was not taken seriously enough to
be practiced by whites. Is it any
wonder that Malcolm X did not
realize Jesus Christ as the answer
to his life?
The essence of Christianity is an
individual's acceptance of God's
kingdom or reign over his life,
certainly incompatible with racial
bigotry. Despite this, it is said that
11:00 on Sunday morning is Am-erica's
most segregated hour. God's
creation of man, not different
kinds of man, but man was in his
own image. Do we have a right
to make a distinction which God
himself did not make? Galatians
3: 28 says "for you are all one in
Christ Jesus." How can we then
have the audacity to deprive black
Americans of their human dignity
and rights by forcing them to be
our "mascots" or Uncle Toms in
order to be accepted? —WE ARE
ALL ONE — When will we love
and accept them for the individual
human beings that they are? Jesus
Christ taught and lived the life of
love. We too, as his followers are
to be known for our love for the
brethren — to love one's neighbor
as oneself. What if Malcolm X had
seen this love practiced by white
Christians?
"Let us not love in word or
speech but in deed and in truth."
(John 3: 18) Love embodies action
and its prerequisite is justice. In
Christianity and Social__ Justice,
Msgr. Luigi Civardi says "to do
(one) justice (is) to give him what
is due him, and no one can say
that he is doing charity to a bro-ther
if he has not done him full
justice first." God demands justice,
"let justice roll down like waters,
and righteousness like an ever-flowing
stream," (Amos 5: 25) and
he will have it even at the expense
of white, Christian Americans.
The Christian conscience has
been negligent and silent. The Bi-ble
says to love one's neighbor
but we won't let Blacks be our
neighbors; we've cultivated indif-ference
when God has taught us
to help others when they have
need; we dedicate our minds to
sublime things and ignore God in
our daily lives where social in-justices
occur; and, we delegate
our responsibility to the courts,
excusing ourselves from exercising
the justice God demands of every
man. (Paraphrased, Rabbi Heshel)
Actually we are isolating ourselves
— protecting our self-centered,
"safe" lives which risk discomfort
from too much awareness or in-volvement
in crucial issues.
Rev. Will Cambell, author of
Race and Renewal of the Church,
aptly states, "We are asking, 'what
can we do to improve race rela-tions
and still maintain the str-ength
and rate of growth of the
"comfortable institution?" The
answer to that question is 'No-thing!'
" The life of love for others
that Christ teaches involves some
personal sacrifice.
I ask along with Martin Luther
King, "Shouldn't it be our Judeo-
Christian faith which transforms
the jangling discords of America
into a beautiful symphony of bro-therhood?"
We have failed people
like Malcolm X all too often. Chri-stianity
has been marred by our
failure to believe and live what
Christ teaches; we can and must
change — praying for his spirit,
seeking to love all men with his
love and thereby honor him and
his entire creation.
Jackie Goodman '71
Senior questions validity of the spirit exhibited in
President's message of semester's opening chapel
To the editor:
After much thought and discus-sion
with my fellow students I
find I can no longer remain silent;
I must express myself.
The spirit of Christian Love
which grew on this campus during
the Interim, on the choir tour and
with the study group in Israel
was something which made Bethel
come alive. Symposium, which I
participated in, brought with it a
chance to exchange ideas, concepts
and beliefs between many stu-dents
who would not normally
come in contact with one another.
Usually students hide themselves
in protective shells but the new
unity in Jesus overcame this ob-stacle.
People who were once "its"
became "thous". I began to under-stand
what others felt and cared
about and we shared love between
us and in Christ.
This new Spirit seemed to unite
everyone together and those of
us in Symposium expressed their
hopes and prayers at our last
meeting that this new found unity
centered upon Christ would natur-ally
be carried over to second sem-ester.
This Spirit was different from
others that had come to this
campus, it had no emotional up-lifting
or impact, just a quiet,
deep, mutual caring for one an-other's
lives, thoughts and needs.
It was a desire to put down streo-types,
miconception and to see the
The reality of Christ was expres-sed
in many ways, for each of us
loved Him and received love from
Him in unique individual relation-ships.
Christ was shared as a per-sonal
friend, and with_ in that
friendship was the spirit and love
we had for one another. That was
our guide for life — our goal was
to be more like the Saviour.
continued on page 3
1— "FORGET IT, BUDDY. MY FRIEND FROM THE LANDLORDS' ASSOCIATION SAYS YOU'RE ON
HIS LIST NOT ONLY AS A TENANT'S UNION RADICAL, BUT AS A CARD—CARRYING
Page 2 the CLARION Friday, February 13, 1970 UNIVERSITY STUDENT."
Bethel needs minority
group recruitment, why?
When the North Central examining team visited Bethel's campus
a year ago, one of the criticisms they handed down was that the com-munity's
population was too homogeneous. Their recommendation
was that Bethel must create a greater diversity among its student body
by including both more minority students and more disadvantaged
students in its campus population, or endanger itself of losing its ac-creditation.
In spite of this statement, the faculty committee on Minority
Groups has been working for two years to get faculty approval on a
mild recommendation which calls for the active recruitment of min-ority
students, the expansion of the effort required to make them
successful here, the re-examination of curriculum to include, where
possible, new courses of interest to minority students and to com-pensate
in existing courses for the present under emphasis on the con-tributions
of the various minority groups. For two years the recom-mendations
bounced back to committee after being tabled for further
discussion, revision, re-examination.
The recommendation was finally passed by unanimous voice vote
last week after a flury of discussion. Attitudes seemed to be generally
in favor, but noncommittal. — We need minority students, but there's
too much involved. It'll never happen. It'll cost too much and there
will be too much effort involved — it's easier not to change.
Two courses dealing with different areas on black culture, Black
Literature and Rhetoric of Black Revolt, were structured for the
Interim. Out of these two classes came a core of students concerned
with the role that Bethel is playing in the issue of minority groups
and recruitment.
They formed a group called share which has committed itself
"to provide at Bethel a wider educational experience through the re-cruitment
of minority students, to provide an opportunity for educa-tional
disadvantaged individuals to obtain a higher education at
Bethel." They have already sponsored a film and a concert which
raised almost $200. Good. So what? Why do we need minority students
at Bethel?
First. The North Central evaluation team indicated that to continue
on the present trend of homogenity, would jeopardize our accredi-tation
as a liberal arts college. Do you want the college to lose its
accreditation two years after you leave? How do you think that's going
to look on the records? "B.A. from Bethel Colege. Hmmm — Say,
didn't that place lose its accreditation just after you graduated?"
Second. There must be a reason why the North Central evaluation
team thinks that homogenity is bad. There appear to be several reasons.
A liberal arts college is supposed to prepare a person to face society
when he leaves. Whether we want to recognize the fact or not there are
blacks running around outside here and they are becoming more and
more a part of everyday life—an everyday life with which Bethel students
are not being faced, but will be when they leave. Are we going to face
life with the outdated ideas and attitudes of our parents? We may
even have good ideas about the way things should be and the willing-ness
to change, but there is a big difference between how things
should be and how far you can go towards that goal. We need experience.
What type of relationship could you or would you develope with a
black boss, minister or neighbor?
There is a more basic reason why. An environment, to remain
fresh and creative, must change. It must "get new blood" into its
system. Why do you think cousins are not allowed to marry? Anything
that is living is continually changing and adapting. A society is the
same way. We, at Bethel are presently committing incest. We need to
examine all sides of every question, constantly searching for better
ways. And who knows? We may be able to benefit from the relation-ships
which would develope. We may learn a better way, or find our
own way more meaningful. If we've got a good thing going, its absurd
to run scared. Since we are only human beings we must continually
examine the possibility that God has not given us WASP's everything
there is to have.
Third. These reasons why Bethel's population should include min-ority
groups are good, but extremely self-interest oriented, which is
not what Christians ought to be. The issue ought to be presented
from the Christian perspective also. Look around you. How many
American minority students do you see? Do you know what percent
of the U.S. population is actually what we term minority group?
The faculty committee on Minority Groups called Bethel a white
ghetto. They were right. We're a racist institution. We love ourselves
to the exclusion of everyone else. We are perpetuating that institution
of slavery of our great-great grandfathers' time.
It is our responsibility as Christians to do all we can to destroy
these attitudes. It is our responsibility to attempt to repair the damage—
or at least not hinder them in repairing it themselves; to help those
who need help.
That is why we need minority students at Bethel. Now let's get in
there and examine all the possibilities of how it can be accomplished
and work towards that goal for next year.
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Bethel Forum
Israeli sojourners tell of escapades,
gain new perspective of Christianity
Friday, February 13, 1970
the CLARION Page 3
Bethel Forum
- • • of • 1 .
Spirit ot interim must live on
by Cindy Rostollan
While many students were brav-ing
the weather in Minnesota dur-ing
Interim, others sang and swam
in Florida, still others made a trip
to Israel and the Holy Land.
In a recent chapel service, var-ious
students told of their ex-periences
going to, staying in,
and leaving Israel, but a total of
81 made the trip, and a few of
the other students who made the
trip had some interesting com-ments
to make.
"For almost all of us," said
Joyce Bristow, "the Sunday morn-ing
service at the Garden tomb
was the spiritual highlight of the
trip. Everything else seemed so
commercialized, with people buy-ing
and selling all over, that I
soon began to feel, `so what.' But,
then when we were there at the
place where Christ had been bur-ied,
and most important, where he
had risen, these other things didn't
seem as important. No matter
what, Christ had been there and
he was there with us."
"The hardest thing for me in
Israel, was being a blonde," re-lates
Kathy Froelich. "In Israel
they just aren't used to blonde
people, and everywhere I would
go, everyone would stop and stare
at me. At first, it was flattering,
but later it really got annoying. 1
couldn't go anywhere by myself,
because people wouldn't leave me
alone."
For David Auge, one of his
most unusual experiences was giv-ing
a pint of blood when he was
low on money. As he said, "Paul
and I were just walking in the
old city and a fellow came up
and asked us if we'd like to make
$9. We thought it sounded fishy,
but I was almost broke, so we went
with him.
He took us to one of the sta-tions
in the old city where a kind
of Health Clinic was set up. A
young guy was sick, and in need
of blood, so his folks were paying
for the blood he needed. They took
me to an old antique looking room,
and stuck my arm through a hole
in the wall, so they could take the
blood out in another room next
door.
I thought for a minute, I was
going to lose my whole arm, so
I had Paul check around the cor-ner,—
everything was sterile and
it looked ok, so . . . When they
finished, I got my $9 and we left
for the hotel."
"What really struck me," began
Susan Verunac, "was the land it-self.
I expected desert and barren
wasteland, and yet it was so green.
It really surprised me, it was so
beautiful."
"What I liked best," said Cora
Gaalswyk, 'was the Galilee re-gion.
Christ centered most of his
ministry there and it was inter-esting
to see where He had been.
It was exciting to see what I had
been hearing and reading about
all my life. Everything was so
much more alive!"
The Masada Fortress, near the
Dead Sea, was a real highlight
for Gary Mamilton. "It's way out
in the desert, not a blade of grass
around, and yet there were baths
and swimming pools and different
other luxuries there during King
Herod's time. The contrast of the
barren desert to the magnificence
of the palace was fascinating."
To Betty Pettman, "One of the
best parts of the trip was the
extra-curricular activities! Another
girl and myself had a chance to
date a couple of Israeli guys much
of the time we were there and . . .
you can take it from there."
"My most unusual experience,"
begins Bob Gustafson, "came on
our last night. We were in New
Jerusalem walking down the
street, and suddenly a girl came
running and ran into Paul and
then me. She then got behind me,
trying to use me as a shield be-tween
her boyfriend and herself.
He was trying to choke her.
The military police then came
along, and picked me up, thinking
I was at fault. When I moved from
in front of the girl, the boyfriend
jumped at her again, and this
time Dave tripped him to stop
him. The police picked him up
then, and after some explaining,
apologized to us."
After some thinking, Mary Mey-er
said, "What I thought was real
meaningful to me was the first
time we drove into Jerusalem, and
Maurice Zaffke announced this
past week that he plans to dedicate
one of the issues of the Coeval to
the emphasis of musical expres-sion.
He said that he is hopeful that
the issue will examine all aspects
of music, approaching it from an
anthropological and philisophical
point of view as well as include
some original compositions of Be-thel
students.
"Some of the music classes are
required to do some composing,"
everybody sang "The Holy City."
It was probably the first time
could really realize the words of
the song. It was something you
just have to experience."
There were many unusual and
meaningful experiences in the trip,
and yet what seemed to stand out
with most of the students was the
fact that it was really easy to lose
their spiritual perspective while
they were there. "We saw so many
churches and the different places
where Christ had been, that some-times
we would forget about our
own personal Christ who lives
within us."
No one had anything bad to say
about the trip, instead there were
just too many things good to say
about it. Personally, as one who
didn't go, there is the need to
say, "Israel, anyone?"
Zaffke reported, "and this is an
area of the campus arts that has
been neglected in the past." He
says that he has contacted mem-bers
of the music department and
that they will be encouraging their
students to submit their work to
this issue of the Coeval.
"The entries should be of a na-ture
that will be of some use to
other students,' says Zaffke. This
would include work along the lines
of church music, folk music, etc.
He will also accept critical essays
continued from page 2
And as second semester opened
you could feel it all around; the
spring had come early to Bethel.
It was a new home of honesty un-like
any other I had seen in my
four years here at school — A
definite desire to care for and
help one another as brothers and
sisters in Christ.
And Monday as I walked into
Chapel (the first of second sem-ester)
I expected to worship my
Lord in this unity of Love. But
I was disappointed by the puritani-cal
"Christian" package that was
delivered. Here was a time to be-gin
a new semester with a spirit-ual
message of Christ's Love but
in its place we received a message
To the editor:
Has anyone ever considered
freezing the tuition for a student
once he has started at Bethel?
I, for one, was quite dismayed to
learn from last week's Clarion
that tuition was being raised an-other
$200. This makes a total of
$350 in increases since I returned
to Bethel last year. I am married
and have one child and an un-expected
increase such as this is
quite a blow to my budget to say
nothing of my morale.
I think is would improve stu-dent-
administration relations a
of music and aesthetics.
The submission deadline is Ap-ril
24. The editor hopes to have
the issue out two weeks after this
deadline.
on man's rules and regulations for
this Christian community (archaic
as some may be).
The negative tone, the negative
attitude and the disillusionment
created on our campus through
that chapel service is evident by
the reaction during that chapel
itself and the conversation all dur-ing
the following week.
I know the Spirit of Interim will
live on among the students and
faculty whom it has touched. I
only pray that it will become more
that Christ will be explored more
fully and what was so important
that Monday morning will drift
away from our minds.
Thomas W. Mesaros '71
great deal if a student would have
to pay the same tuition for any
consecutive year he attends Beth-el.
I know that this is being done
at Gustavus Adolphus College in
St. Peter, Minn. A program such
as this would induce more students
to stay at Bethel for their com-plete
four-year education also.
I realize that this is not the
complete solution to gaining and
keeping students, but believe that
it would be a step in the right
direction.
Duane Peterson
Class of '71
Tues., Feb. 10, afternoon and
evening saw the Bethel Speech
Dept. hosting on campus the Twin
City Debate League's annual "For-ensic
Fun" tournament for 130
speakers from 14 area schools.
The 6 speaking events included
two divisions of oral interpreta-tion,
original oratory, extempor-aneous
speaking, after-dinner and
rhetorical criticism. Each partici-pating
school was allowed 12
speaking slots to be filled in any
way felt to be the most advant-ageous
for winning the sweep-stakes
award.
Bethel placed 3 speakers in final
rounds with Carol Shimmin speak-ing
in Rhetorical Criticism on Mal-com
X's speech "The 'Ballot and
the Bullet", Marg Erickson com-peting
in extemporaneous and
Sherie Lindvall taking a first place
in After-dinner with an entertain-ing
speech on natural beauty. The
Bethel Speakers placed 3rd in the
line-up for sweepstakes.
Carol and Marg will be partic-ipating
in their respective events
at Eau Claire this week-end.
Some of the schools on campus
for the event were Eau Claire,
UMD., U of M., Moorehead, St.
Teresas, Gustavus, St. Marys, Su-perior
State, Mankato with Mac-alester
placing 1st in sweepstakes.
Carol Shimmin placed in the final rounds with her Rhetori-cal
Criticism on Malcom X's speech at the Forensics Tournament
here Thursday.
Marg Erickson made the final rounds in
Extemporaneous Speaking, will go on to Eau
Claire.
Sherie Lindvall took first in After-dinner
Speaking with a speech on natural beauty.
Coeval to dedicate issue to musical expression
Student questions tuition raise,
proposes option to yearly increase
Bethel hosts speech tourney, places three finalists
The Clarion wishes to thank its readers for responding through
letters to the editor. This semester we have established a new policy
concerning letters. Letters to the editor must be received no later
than Monday evening of a given week and must be typewritten
no longer than two pages double spaced.
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"You mean I'm really going?
I quite frankly didn't expect they'd
pick me, I mean I really thought—
I wonder where I'll be."
Shortly before Christmas, the
Student Missionary Committee,
headed by Dan Versaw and Dr.
Arthur Lewis, made the final de-cision
on what students would be
taking part in the Student Mis-sionary
Project for the summer of
1970.
During Interim contacts were
being made to finalize the fields
for the sixteen chosen students.
Now as second semester is in
process, most of the students have
a definite field waiting for them
this summer.
Going to Morocco under Trans
World Radio, will be Pat Tyberg,
a junior from Grantsburg, Wiscon-sin.
Pat Chase, a sophomore from
Rocky Hill, Connecticut, will be
working under Belgium Gospel
Mission in Belgium. Though her
destination isn't yet certain, Linda
Lovgren, a junior from Hinckley,
Minnesota, will also be serving in
some area of Europe.
This summer will be the first
time one of the student mission-aries
will be serving with mission-aries
from our Baptist General
Conference. Barbara Lind, a junior
from Bloomfield, Connecticut, is
going to Brazil under the BGC.
With Wycliffe in Mexico, will
be Paul Stimers, a junior from
Action Models Fair
draws national
experts in social work
continued from page 1
West Garfield Park area of Chi-cago;
Operation Switchboard of
San Francisco which uses corn-munications
systems to render ser-vice
to people in trouble; the
Southern Center in Chicago, an
organization designed to help poor
people from Appalachia become
acclimated to urban life; the Cen-ter
for Dialog of Dade County,
Florida which provides a neutral
ground for encounter between pol-arized
persons and groups leading
toward direct action on commun-ity
problems; the HELP Unit of
San Francisco, organized by Dr.
Joel Fort, a highly regarded ex-pert
in the field of drug use and
abuse and also in the field of
human sexuality; the Symbiotic
Community of Sioux Falls, South
Dakota which presents a new ap-proach
to land settlement patterns
by combining urban and rural in-gredients
in developing regional
communities; and the Liberty Plaza
housing project of St. Paul — rec-ognized
as one of the nation's
finest examples of low-income
housing built under non-profit,
church sponsorship by Dayton Ave-nue
Presbyterian Church.
Each of the booths will be man-ned
by a number of the project
staff. Arrangements are being
made for each project to make
three presentations per day. The
whole process will be repeated for
each of the three days of the
Fair. In this way it will be con-venient
for the public to become
thoroughly informed about any
projects in which he has an inter-est.
A Fair Guide will be distri-buted
listing each project and re-lated
information.
Friday, February 13, 1970
Muskegon, Michigan. As of yet,
there isn't a definite field clear-ed
for Dale Berry, a junior from
Isle, Minnesota, but he will probab-ly
be working in the area around
Central or South America.
Darlene Chaddock, a sophomore
from Bethel Park, Pennsylvania,
will be heading north into British
Columbia, to work under North
American Indian Mission.
Working in the United States
this summer will be Cindy Ros-tollan,
a junior from Saxon, Wis-consin,
who will be going to Ko-diak
Island, Alaska. Nita Nelson,
a sophomore from Brainard, Min-nesota,
Rachel Campbell, a junior
from Hazelhurst, Mississippi, Dar-lene
Griffith, a sophomore from
Orlando, Florida, High McLeod, a
sophomore from St. Paul, and Har-ley
Hanson, a junior from Long
Prairie, Minnesota, will all be
working under the Baptist Gen-eral
Conference Home Mission in
Minnesota.
The stand-bys, whose fields are
not yet definite, are Shelly Daniel-son,
a sophomore from Morrisdale,
Pennsylvania, Ruth LaBonte, a
freshman from Black Mountain,
North Carolina, and Marjorie An-derson,
a junior from Rockford,
Illinois.
Pray for these students as they
begin planning their summers, and
remember while your'e praying,
that these that are sent, are your
representatives.
The budget for this year's Stu-dent
Mission Project reaches $4,-
000 and so far, only $1,500 has
been realized. To help finances,
and for everyone's convenience,
there is a box for the missionary
project in the coffee shop. If you
have any extra money when you're
at the banking window (if that is
at all possible), the ladies working
there will credit it to the Mission
Project. There will be not offer-ing
as such during Founders Week,
so some might like to use these
boxes for their weekly offering
next week.
For those interested, every Mon-day
night at 6:30, a short prayer
meeting is held for those involved
in the Missionary Project.
Bethel student missionaries receive
notification of summer destinations
by Betty Eckstrom
How would you like to spend
your Easter break on a skiing hol-iday?
Don Nelson, in conjunction
with the physical education depart-ment,
is organizing a ski trip to
Jackson. Hole Wyoming in the
Teton Mountains.
At Jackson Hole, 4,135 vertical
feet of skiing, and a wide variety
of terrain so that no matter what
class of skier you are in—begin-ner,
intermediate, expert—you will
find something you like. A 2,260
foot long double chairlift serves
a gentle ski school slope at the
base of the area.
The intermediate skier will find
on the 2,175 vertical feet of Apres
Vous Peak some of the best inter-mediate
terrain in America. On
Rendezvous Peak, the big moun-tain,
the expert and intermediate
will be in their glory. The inter-i
mediate may choose to disembark
from the aerial tram at tower
three. He will still have up to five
miles of skiing to the Valley Sta-tion.
Jackson Hole's 63 passenger
aerial tram rises from Teton Vil-lage
at 6,311 feet above sea level
to the top of Rendezvous Peak,
10,446 feet; one of the world's
major tramway installations, it
rises 4,135 vertical feet in a dis-tance
of 2.4 miles. It required 26
months to build and cost almost
$2 million.
Now you may be asking not only
how you can get in on this fan-tastic
trip but also how much it
will cost and what will the price
include. For $115 you will get all
transportation (Greyhound), seven
nights of lodging at the Buckrail
Lodge, and six full days of skiing
with the price of all lift tickets
also included. All that is not cov-ered
is equipment rental, which
you can take care of inexpensively
at Bethel, and food, which will
continued to page 6
Jilin Ikebieth
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
once there was a storie 'bout a thief named Butch
an' his bossman, "the kid"
an' they did many things tagether
an' som were good — but most were bad
but bot' a' them were people like you an' me
who do som' things good but mostly bad
an' this storie was made inta' one a' thos' things
call'd movin pi'tures
an' it seem'd ta' me that lots a' people
really enjoyed it
cause was a comedy an' notin' more
nobodie tried ta' tell a stork that
folks lik' me couldn't understand
an' me an my friend went one night
an' we laffed so hard we couldn't walk strait
an' they did somtine real funny in the beginin'
all the people an' buildings were brown an' whit'
it was kinda different
an' the storie kept us on the tips of our toes
ready to run for ol' Sundance and Butch if
they got tired and did they ever
they got tired a' hunnin'
in fac', that wes the whole storie
Butch an' Sundance jus' runnin' an' runnin'
an' this storie is kinda queer
'cause all a' the sudd'n ya re'lize
you lov these people! (oh no! a crying shame!)
jus' like the "good ole Book" says
'Lou your enemie!"
an' you start ta' think 'bout all
the mostly bad things they do
an' how it doesn't make any difference 'cause
you lov em!
an' in the end it comes ta min'
that your "enemies" all are gonna die
for all the mostly bad things
an' you feel real sad,
cause you lov em!
Tbeetther 3hebieM
Mac's rock musical explores black-white relations
by Marjorie M. Rusche
Speaking of educational reform
and innovation (see last week's
Clarion), a few Macalester students
have worked out an interim pro-ject
that innovates not only aca-demically
but also musically and
theatrically.
Their thing is "Freedom Suite",
an original rock musical exploring
the problem of black-white re-lations,
alienation, loneliness, and
love. It happens in Macalester's
Weyerhaeuser Chapel, which is
an octagonal stage in the rooms
front center area with the pews
grouped around in a semi-circular
fashion.
"Freedom Suite's" script was
written by Larry Jacobsen, a 22
year old black Minneapolis author.
He also did many of the lyrics
for the songs. Music, mostly hard
rock with some folk thrown in,
was composed by Jeff Schroeder
and John Katsontonis, who also
played in "Freedom Unveiled",
the back-up group that served the
function of a pit orchestra for the
musical.
The plot centers around Joker,
a young black just released on
parole, Nancy, a naive white girl
(cursed with an over-ambitious
senator for a father) who plays
"social worker" in a ghetto and
falls for Joker. Joker gives Nan-cy
security and affection — some-thing
she desparately needs due
to parental neglect.
The security is false (as security
usually is), for when she tells Jo-ker
that she's pregnant just after
Joker proposes marriage Joker
decides it's time to cut out and
disclaims any responsibility for
the unborn child.
Nancy runs home to try to talk
to her father, but he, busily con-sulting
his political advisor over
some phraseology in a speech, ig-nores
her until she blurts out,
"Dad, I'm pregnant."
Then he starts listening; no not
really listening, but at least re-acting.
"What! We warned you!
We told you not to hang around
that dirty no-good hippie Timmy."
(Timmy was Nancy's old boyfriend,
whom Nancy had been forbidden
to see since he was the "wrong
sort" and would ruin her father's
political image.) Nancy explains
that Timmy's not the one, but
Joker, a black man. At discovering
this perfidious breach of morality,
Senator Day rushes towards his
daughter and attempts to murder
her.
The close of the musical finds
Nancy running to her old flame's
(Timmy) pad, desparate for a lit-tle
understanding and genuine hu-man
concern. He, however, is hap-pily
tripped out on some "no-no's."
Nancy tells her tale of woe to
Tim who is dreamily sitting there
exclaiming, "It's so beautiful!
Wow!." Nancy's crying. Tim says,
'Here, take this." She hesitates,
then pops the pill.
Her trip is a bad one. All the as-sociation-
laden figures from her
past and present slowly advance
from every direction until they
surround and symbolically suf-focate
her. She is buried. Her par-ents
and "friends" hypocritically
cry for her bones, then file off
stage and resume their normal
lives.
The denouncement comes as Jo-ker
remains on stage staring at
Nancy's dead body. A new white
girl comes from the anonominity
of the audience and walks into
Joker's vision. Joker's pitch comes,
"Hey, you look lonely." She nods.
They walk off together, leaving
Nancy's corpse to rot.
Well. That's a sketchy outline
of the plot. There are many more
subplots dealing with racism, hy-pocrisy,
difference between black
and white cultures, etc. The play
seems overly-obvious while you're
sitting through it, but gains com-plexity
upon reflection.
The music fits well with the
drama, thematically and rythmat-ically,
although there are some
rough spots in transition. Obvious-ly,
it makes good theatrical sense
to use contemporary music forms
to emphasize the contemporary
theme of the play. The music was
composed fairly well, but gener-ally
poorly performed. The actors
were much better actors than sing-ers.
If you have a chance, take the
time to go see the play. It's still
running this weekend, Saturday
and Sunday nights at 8 P.M. in
Macalester's chapel. Student tick-ets
cost a dollar and can be pur-chased
at the door.
Friday, February 13, 1970 the CLARION Page 5
by Steve Duinick
It seems to be "black week" here at Bethel College and Seminary.
I am very happy that this long overdue event has finally made some
headway into school. We at our protective institution have had it easy
for far too long before someone like the Black Literature class has had
the initiative to stick it in our face. For some of us it is a big step out
of our way, for others it is the chance to back up God's Word, and yet
for others it is the "Natch'l thing."
But why are we going out of our way to help educate the blacks
when there are many poor whites too? That seems to be a question
asked when ever the suggestion of helping the American Negro out of
his pit is raised.
Questions such as these usually originate from the mouths of those
least knowledgeable on the black subject but yet feel themselves well-informed
on the current issue. There are reasons why we should help
our black neighbors and most of these arguments are beyond our ear
range since we are so far out of communication with their world.
My early contact with the subject at hand came from my elders
and usually sounded something like, "those black should
learn their place" or "there is nothing wrong with niggers, everyone
should own one." My next confrontation with the dark side came from
their soul music that most high school kids latched on to so quickly. It
was a style, a Negro at this time, but a date was above and beyond the
call of duty.
Once I got into Bethel College things changed drastically and I
found myself far from any contact with the outside world. It wasn't until
this year and a movie called "Putney Swope" that I heard my black
brothers screaming for recognition. Dean Pearson has also helped obtain
some relations between the colored barriers by having parties involving
some of his black friends yet this is only minimal exposure to the sub-ject
and needs many times the attention it has received.
There is no way I can inform you on the situation here at school
(if you haven't already noticed) since I don't believe we even have a
situation, or not yet anyway. What I know of their problems you could
put under your fingernails and still have room for dirt. Also I don't
believe any of us here are authorities on the Negro subject or are even
well-informed. That is why their presence is long overdue not matter
how painful or injurious they are to our quiet little sub-culture.
Bo Conrad and company made an entertaining scene
Monday night. Benefits went towards minority recruitment.
Spit Band MIN =I `feels fine'
Male chorus, historians plan European tour
by Carroll Jarp
While most of us are busily
working this summer some of our
fellow Bethelites will be touring
Europe. A chartered plane will
wing the Bethel Male chorus and
a history tour to Frankfurt, Ger-many
where each group will pro-ceed
to pursue its own course.
According to C. Howard Smith,
director, this will be the second
over-seas tour for the male chorus.
The tour will include many of
the same countries they toured in
1966: Sweden, Denmark, Norway,
Scotland, the greater London area,
and will finish up in Germany.
For the most part, performances
will be held in churches. "There
are so few young people who at-tend
church in Europe," states
Smith, "and we hope to draw them
into the churches through the
ministry of music. The chorus will
present their regular repertoire
sung in English with a few Swe-dish
songs."
The 40 members of the chorus
will be lodged in private housing tour), Richard Ward, assistant pro-arranged
by key people in each fessor of history, will be leading
country. "I anticipate little prob- the tour only if sufficient student
lem in communicating with the interest is indicated. To date, only
people while in their homes," said nine students have signed up for
Smith, "since communication on the tour and a minimum of 25
the last tour was very minimal. students is needed. Ward stressed
Most European and Scandinavian the fact that the tour will desist
young people now days speak Eng- unless more than 20 sudents show
lish quite well." The group will an interest by February 18. To-travel
by bus, train and boat, giv- tal cost of the history tour is
ing a total of 35 concerts. $914, and all interested students
The history tour, meanwhile, are encouraged to see Ward by
will be viewing historical sights February 18.
in England, France, Swetzerland, Smith also stressed the fact
Austria, Germany, Italy, Czecho- that there are still available seats
slovakia, and East and West Berlin. for any interested students, facul-
It is basically a study tour which ty, friends, or relatives wishing to
will be historically and culturally visit Europe on their own. The
oriented, and will include on sight cost per person for the round
study with required reading prior trip flight is $260. Interested per.-
to the tour. Students participating sons should contact C. Howard
in the tour and fulfilling the re- Smith or Gary McCann.
quired reading will be granted Both tours will run from June
three credits toward general edu- 7th through July 16th and are
cation requirements. being arranged through the Col-
Due to the illness of Dr. Dalton lege City Travel Service in North-
(who was to have conducted the field.
by Janet Appelquist
A group called The Lovin' Spoon-ful
used to sing, "Well, the doc-tor
said, 'Give him jug band mu-sic.
You know it makes him feel
so fine.' " After listening to the
therapeutics of the Bo Conrad
Spit Band, what can you say when
you "feel so fine"? "Wow" just
doesn't quite seem sufficient. But
your mouth is smiling so much you
can't form the words and your
hands are numb from clapping and
your feet from tapping. And your
heart is happy just knowing you've
been around when something great
was going on.
An enumeration of the events
would take forever since every
little thing seemed an event in
iteself; from Dean Lindberg's fan-cy
footwork to Mark Steward's
tuxedoed contrast with the rest
of the band's less formal attire
(understatement!), not to mention
the inimitable Steve Duinick and
the group's namesake, the one-and-only
Harold "Bo" Conrad. Filling
out the ensemble were Robert Vork
with some fancy "knee"-work
(don't ask questions, just keep
reading), Bill Moline, Larry Os-trom,
and the "big man on the
wash-tub bass', Dave Frykman,
whose sensational jug band post-ers
were auctioned during inter-mission.
The versatile Steve Duinick led
the sale in true auctioneering
style. Proceeds from admissions
and the poster sale netted about
$190 for the very worthy cause
of American Minority Group schol-arships
at Bethel. A count of 250
paid admissions indicates that a-bout
25% of the campus had a
"real good time" last Monday.
As a post-script it should be
added that, not only does each
member do "his own thing" on
stage, but the music produced is
really great. The musicianship is
surprisingly competent. Besides
performing about seventeen old
favorites, some of the members
demonstrated their versatility by
playing their own compositions.
With personality and talent like
this abounding, the Bo Conrad
Spit Band should go down in his-tory
(or at least, on record).
Page 6 the CLARION Friday, February 13, 1970
Bethel man Gordy Nordmark watches ap-prehensively
as Andy Feldman attempts an-other
sinker.
Cagers whip Lumberjacks; entertain
visiting Briar Cliff and Mankato State
by Rich Zaderaka but didn't hold it for long. The
The Royals have a rugged week- Royals stormed back, and after
end schedule, going against the the lead had changed hands twice,
Chargers of Briar Cliff tonight, a tip-in by Andy Feldman put
and against the Indians of Man- Bethel up to stay. The Royals
kato State tomorrow evening. Both reeled in the next six buckets for
opponents will have definite height a 20-7 margin. During the final
advantages which Bethel will hope five minutes of the half, the Jacks
to offset with the home court fac- shaved the deficit to 26-20.
tor. Northland's Dick Lee pumped
Bethel opened their season a- in seven points in the opening min-gainst
Briar Cliff on November utes of the second half, to pull the
21. The Royals led at half 25-23, Jacks within two at 30-28. The
but didn't fare as well in the Royals blasted the game open at
second period and lost 56 45.
21.. Dan Larson and Andy Feldman Ed Wiltgen led all scorers with Skiers pack for Jackson Hole
each had 13 for Bethel.
Mankato has a season record of
4-14, but will be a tougher op-ponent
than that statistic indi-cates.
The Indians defeated Briar
Cliff 73-69 last Friday. On Sat-urday,
the Mankato frosh (eight
of whom are on the varsity) de-feated
the University of Minnesota
freshmen 66-54. Rich Pearson,
who led Duluth Central to a sec-ond
place finish in the state tourn-ament
last year, spearheaded the
victory over Minnesota with 27
points. Walt Williams, a member
of Proviso East's Illinois state
championship team, added 12
points and pulled down 11 re-bounds.
Last Friday the Royals whipped
Northland 70-51. The Lumber-jacks
snatched an early 5-0 lead,
The Column
by Tim Weko
Before doing anything else, I must say how glad the basketball
team was for the band playing at the game. It was their first appearance
of the year, due to other circumstances. Anyone who has ever parti-cipated
in a competitive sport realizes the benefit of noise, and the
sound level in a gym is raised quickly with the presence of a band.
So far as I'm concerned, the band can play "Peter Gun" to their
heart's content at all upcoming games. Thanks again, band.
Speaking of basketball, the Royals have won three in a row, now
and are looking for their fourth and fifth this weekend. The team
seems to be rolling finally after a rather choppy take off. But, it
seems that just as the team is beginning to move Founders Week is
upon us.
Founders Week, with all its fans, festivities, founders and fun is
nice because a person can go to a lot of meetings free, miss a lot of
classes without a guilty conscience, and see his pastor or his parents,
(and don't get me wrong, I like to see my folks as much as the next
guy) but have you ever tried to practice half-court meaningfully? I
mean, here we are hot as pistols with six games to go and practice gets
cut to one half hour of taking chairs down, 15 minutes of practice time,
and then another half hour to set the chairs up again.
After so many times of setting up chairs and taking them down
again those chairs seem to take on a personality, and they start to get
on your nerves until finally you'd like to heave a couple right across the
floor. But, that would be childish, wouldn't it?
Anyway, do you think the founders would be offended if someone
asked each one of them who was sitting in a chair on the main floor
during the last afternoon session to carry it to the side of the floor?
You think they'd be offended, huh? What if someone suggested it any-how?
At least that way if we can't have the whole floor we can at least
have more time.
There have been rumors each Founders Week that the basketball
game is fixed. I don't mean that the coach or the athletic director or
whoever, schedules a patsy, a pushover, someone who the Royals could
play with to show the founders what a good team Bethel has.
Let me say that these rumors are not true. It is true that the last
three Founders Week games have been pretty funny but let me ex-plain:
Three years ago Bethel had an intra-squad scrimmage instead of
a game because its opponent, Northwestern (Iowa), was snow bound. A
legitimate excuse: Two years ago Bethel had to play Northwestern junior
varsity again because their varsity coach said the varsity was involved
in tournament play and he didn't want to tire them out for the big push.
Well, how ridiculous can you get? I mean, when you schedule a game,
you're responsible to play it, right?
So that's why the Founders Week games in recent years have
seemed to be setups. That plus the fact that very few teams, if any, will
schedule a game away from home on a Thursday afternoon. It's just not
prime time.
But this year the founders will have no excuses for sitting meekly
back in their seats and silently watching the Royals massacre someone
with their third string. I've often wondered how people who could talk
all day and all night in meetings could never muster a cheer, even a
weak "Hooray," at a basketball game. Founders certainly are strange
because when they get a chance to yell and shout and let off all that
steam from those musty old meetings they sit passively and occasionally
clap their hands. Maybe it's standing for the National Anthem that tires
them out.
The Founders Week game is notorious for its huge, huge number
of fans and its quiet; and fans quiet, by definition, do not belong in the
same gym.
An engrossed manager and bench watch
their teammates whip the Ashland Lumber-jacks.
that point to go on top by 46-32,
with nine minutes remaining. A
layup by Dan Larson at the 4:34
mark gave Bethel a 58-38 advant-age.
The biggest point spread was
24 with less than three minutes
on the clock.
Leading scorers for Bethel were
Andy Feldman, Dan Larson, and
Gordy Nordmark, with 19, 16, and
11 respectively. Northland's Dick
Lee pitched in eight baskets and
seven free throws, to take game
honors with 23.
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cost approximately $3 to $4 per
day (unless you have more ex-pensive
tastes.)
For those who have not made a
deposit, $75 is due before Feb. 12
and the remaining $40 is due be-fore
Feb. 26. It is to be paid at
the banking window, and is also
completely refundable until Feb.
28. For those who want skiing
credit, the Phy. Ed. department
is offering one credit for lessons
culminating with the trip to Jack-son
Hole.
According to the present plans,
those going will depart at 4 p.m.
on the afternoon of Friday, March
27 and will arrive in Jackson Sat-urday
afternoon or early evening.
Following a full night of rest,
there will be an early morning
Easter sunrise service at the base
of the slopes. From then until
Friday, April 3, the agenda in-cludes
skiing! The group will re-turn
around 10 a.m. the morning
of April 4th and arrive back in
the Cities Sunday morning, April
5. That is, those who will not opt
to remain at Jackson. To quote a
friend, "Whatever your ability, at
Jackson Hole, the mountain is
magnificent. Try it—it spoils you.
It's the Gentle Giant!"
Royals host Southwest State
after bad showing at Pillsbury
Ladies undefeated streak
is broken against Carleton
Women's extramural basketball The Fairview nureses were Beth-at
Bethel got off to a strong start el's next opponents and they were
during Interim. Mrs. Marilyn Lind- defeated 44-23. Bethel hosted Con-man
stepped in to train and coach cordia and in their fourth game
the team since Miss Brownlee was again pulled in a victory. Fan sup-ill.
She did her work well — the port was enthusiastic, the final
team record now stands at 4 and 1. score was 36-24.
Augsburg fell first to the Bethel Then Bethel's only undefeated
women, 32-20. Mary Lindman, a team traveled to Carleton. The
team started off strong and kept
returning player, was high scorer on the pressure until the second
with ten points. Mary transferred half when Carleton pulled ahead.
to Wheaton for the second semes- Linda Schmidt had a great night
ter so the team was left without scoring 8 of the first 10 points
one of their leading players. and ending up with 16. Sharon
Bethel traveled down to Pills- Johnson followed with 12. How-bury
for their second game. The ever, Bethel was defeated 39-54.
first half was slow and Bethel The Bethel Women face some
trailed 22-9. But the girls sparked aough opponents in their remain-to
life in the second half, put ing games: University of Wiscon-together
an effective press and sin, River Falls, Uuniversity of
poured in 38 points. The game Minnesota, Augsburg, and St.
ended with Bethel on top 47-36. Cloud State.
Last Saturday the Royal wrest-lers
travelled to Pillsbury for a
seven team tournament in which,
despite a couple of good individual
performances by Bob Olsen and
Greg Ekbom, they finished in sixth
place. This weekend at 2 p.m. Sat-urday,
they will meet the South
west Minnesota State College Mus-tangs
in the Bethel Fieldhouse.
At Pillsbury the competition was
just too good as Bethel salvaged
a sixth place finish ahead of St.
Paul Bible. St. John's University
won the tourney followed respec-tively
by Southwest State, Lea Col-lege,
Pillsbury, Carleton, Bethel
and St. Paul Bible. St. John's has
a fine group of wrestlers as do
Southwest and Lea. Bethel manag-ed
its sixth place finish by virtue
of Olsen's second place finish in
the 190 pound class and Ekbom's
fourth place finish at 150 pounds.
Olsen's first opponent was from
Pillsbury. He pinned him with 12
seconds to go in the first period.
Later he wrestled Southwest's 190
pound man and pinned him at 4:22.
But in the championship round
Olsen was beaten, 3-2, by a wrest-ler
from Lea College.
Ekbom, wrestling in the 150
pound division, won his first match
by a decesion against Pillsbury,
but lost his next two to Lea and
Southwest wreslers for his fourth.
The other Bethel wrestlers all lost
in the first round which auto-matically
meant they could not
finish higher than fifth place.
Doug Warring injured his should-er
during one of his matches and
Barry Anderson will probably be
out for the rest of the season with
a shoulder separation suffered in
his first match. He had to for-feit.
When asked about the tourn-ament,
Bob Olsen said, "We didn't
wrestle up to our potential in quite
a few weights."
With four matches to go the
Royals meet Southwest State Sat-urday
in the fieldhouse. In a pre-vious
meeting between the two
weight classes except 126 pound,
167 pound and 190 pound. Bethel
must win these three as well as
giving a good showing in the other
weights in order to have a chance.
Warring has beaten his man once
before as has Olsen. 32 year old
Bob Downey will be meeting a
new Southwest wrestler in the 118
pound division who is 33 years
old. This will not be the battle of
the Titans but should prove to be
interesting.
Several of the Bethel team are
looking forward to this match in
order to avenge previous defeats.
Added incentive is present in the
fact that Royals won-lost record
now stands at a 8-7. They need
to win to finish with a good season.
Upcoming matches, which will
round out the season, find 'Bethel
at Hamline February 17, at Con-cordia
(St. Paul) February 19 dur-ing
Founders Week, and finally at
Pillsbury again for a dual meet
on the 21.